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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Armin on October 08, 2005, 02:54:50 PM

Title: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Armin on October 08, 2005, 02:54:50 PM
QuoteWhenever I view this webpage:
http://www.metaldev.net/firefox/bugs/render_lag/animation.html
I get a massive amount of lag and CPU usage goes up to 100%, RAM stays the same.
When using IE, the CPU usage stays at a constant 10%-30%.

To prove that this is not due to Firefox's memory allocation problem yet a
rendering problem, I've put up a page without animation, but with more images:
http://www.metaldev.net/firefox/bugs/render_lag/no-animation.html

Also, I'm sure whoever reads this can relate it to bug #242426, yet it's not the
same. They have a very poor description, and the majority of the comments
relates it to a memory allocation problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up Firefox.
2. Go to a page loaded with a large amount of animated images, or just this:
http://www.metaldev.net/firefox/bugs/render_lag/animation.html
3. Enjoy the lag!
Actual Results: 
Non-stop 100% CPU usage.

Expected Results: 
~10%-30% CPU usage like Internet Explorer.

On other forums, I've posted this same problem. The majority of the users get the
lag, but people using Linux don't. Some other people don't get the lag for
reasons I can't explain.

Post the results if you use Firefox. Also vote for it here (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311694) if you want it to be fixed. Even if it's not a problem for you, I'm sure at sometime you'll use somebody else's computer and have that same lag that could've been fixed if you voted for it. If you're REALLY lazy and won't make an account, I'll make it for you.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Joe on October 08, 2005, 03:00:11 PM
1% CPU usage. Use Linux =p

EDIT -
version 1.0.7

(C)1998-2005 Contributors. All Rights Reserved. Firefox and the Firefox logos are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation. All rights reserved. Some trademark rights used under license from The Charlton Company.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:03:14 PM
Quote from: MetaL MilitiA on October 08, 2005, 02:54:50 PM
Quote
On other forums, I've posted this same problem. The majority of the users get the
lag, but people using Linux don't. Some other people don't get the lag for
reasons I can't explain.

Post the results if you use Firefox. Also vote for it here (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311694)

Blame Windows! :P
Linux:
On animated, it jumped to about 20% but on nonanimated it jumped to 35% then back down to 7%
Windows:
Don't feel like switching just to test.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Newby on October 08, 2005, 03:04:06 PM
Quote from: Joe[e2] on October 08, 2005, 03:00:11 PM
1% CPU usage. Use Linux =p

Hush.

Quote from: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:03:14 PM
On animated, it jumped to about 20% but on nonanimated it jumped to 35% then back down to 7%

Same here. The non-animated caused more CPU usage than the animated one did! :p
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Joe on October 08, 2005, 03:06:59 PM
As I edited above, I'm on 1.0.7.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7

(14:13:56) Metal Militia:  User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:08:08 PM
Hmm.. I'm on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Edit: Similar result as Joe, when not maximized.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Joe on October 08, 2005, 03:12:20 PM
Window Manager time!

I'm using Ubuntu-Gnome. I think Ergot is using KDE. Anyhow, mine was maximized, but out of focus.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:13:13 PM
Yea, with OpenGL window decorations and switching desktops to check the CPU usage ;P
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Newby on October 08, 2005, 03:13:24 PM
Window Manager won't do anything. It's the rendering that is causing lag. :P
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:16:59 PM
100% CPU when running Firefox through Wine.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Armin on October 08, 2005, 03:17:30 PM
Hmm, still no new votes. Just so you people can see, here's (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182544) the same bug posted 3 years ago. This bug has been around for ages, and won't go away unless you people vote for it. I already gave the great description, I just need you people to vote for it. I'll even create the accounts for you, all you need to do is click vote!
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 03:19:30 PM
Linux users are apathetic toward Windows users' problems :D (j/k)
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Joe on October 08, 2005, 03:34:18 PM
omg metal resource:///res/samples/test10.html roxxor

EDIT -
Aparently its not built into the Windows version. http://www.javaop.com/uploads/guest/test10.html.png
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 08, 2005, 05:25:53 PM
I don't have it.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: drka on October 08, 2005, 05:52:53 PM
well i DO get the lag. however Process Explorer says it only uses 42% of my CPU. i have a 2.6ghz processor so im good.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Blaze on October 08, 2005, 05:56:59 PM
5% when loading, 1% after.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Armin on October 08, 2005, 11:31:57 PM
Cmon people more votes please! Whether or not this is a problem for you Linux users, I'm sure at some times you use Firefox on Windows whether it's at your house or not. If never want to deal with these problems again, please vote! I can even make the account for you!

Also, Towelie didn't want to do it because he thought he had to fill out the information for the bug. Just to straighten that out, all you have to do is click the "Vote" link, then check 1 box and press okay.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Armin on October 10, 2005, 06:22:59 PM
Holy shit, they fixed it! It turned out to be a problem with NVidia GPUs, and they came out with a beta driver to fix it. I'll link to it directly when it's finished uploading because the place I got it from requires you to register.
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: deadly7 on October 10, 2005, 06:23:42 PM
=o
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Armin on October 10, 2005, 06:30:11 PM
Alright, it's pretty big, 30MB. Download it here (http://www.metaldev.net/firefox/bugs/render_lag/81.84_winxp2k_32bit_international.exe).
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: deadly7 on October 10, 2005, 10:37:27 PM
Forget that, I'll take the OFFICIAL update from nVIDIA. Betas have given this computer plenty of problems. :)
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: drka on October 11, 2005, 02:40:30 AM
i downloaded it and it fixed the problem
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Blaze on October 11, 2005, 04:22:09 PM
http://tcruiseko.ytmnd.com/

That kills me, and I'm on a Radeon card...  :-[
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Ergot on October 11, 2005, 06:17:18 PM
It's fine for me with a Radeon card.... ON LINUX *GASP*
Title: Re: Extreme lag when Firefox renders animated images.
Post by: Newby on October 11, 2005, 06:19:41 PM
Quote from: Ergot on October 11, 2005, 06:17:18 PM
It's fine for me with a Radeon card.... ON LINUX *GASP*

:).