Comment 326 for bug 217908

(In reply to comment #70)
> Well, the Ubuntu bug is wrt Hardy Heron, which is really outdated by now, the
> problem has been fixed in i915 driver a long time ago.
> Also, pixman software scaling performance has improved a lot since with
> addition of SSE and SSE2 scaling - some versions back.
>
> Please do review and apply the patch finally and stop holding Linux Firefox in
> 2009. This bug is forcing high resolution screen and Linux users to rebuild
> patched Firefox.

Ubuntu just upgraded Hardy to Firefox 3.6.x and will hopefully finish out the 3 yr support on that branch. But regardless, we're using in-source cairo now, so we shouldn't be holding anything back.