Firefox pixmap cache to X11 bug reported to bugzilla

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Wed, 09 Jul 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> In case anyone's interested, there was some interesting news on this bug
> today.  Francis Robichaud has written a patch for firefox which apparently
> causes it to resize an image to its HTML dictated size if the HTML size is
> smaller than the image.  Of course this resize is done before passing the
> image to the X server.

His blog has an interesting explanation:

http://www.francisrobichaud.com/index.php/2008/07/08/optimizing-mozilla-and-pixmap-management-in-x/

Gavin