Konqueror slow with bigger images

[Michael Pyne]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 05:56, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> I hear more and more complaints from users that Konqueror is awfully slow
> on webpages with some images. Indeed I can reproduce this on all my
> computers. For good example look at screenshots in
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10187
>
> With two first screenshots Konqueror is awfully slow - it takes several
> seconds to render window again after resize, scrolling is slow etc. But
> third screenshot appears instantly, no any slowdowns with resizing or
> scrolling. Point seems to be that first two screenshots are RGBA images,
> but third one is RGB.
>
> But what's strange that problem doesn't appear for all users. Some users
> say that they don't see any slowdown. There are users who say that
> problem appreared for them after SuSE 10.0 -> 10.1 upgrade, while for
> others there is no problem etc.
>
> Is it known problem? What is causing this? Is there any workaround?

Is EXA acceleration enabled?  Things were really slow for me for a time using 
Exa, even with the latest xorg server.  Switching to XAA fixed that 
particular problem (things are now slower overall, but the speed is more 
uniform).

Not sure if this is the same problem though.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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