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[Micah Gersten <micahg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/23/2010 02:51 AM, Matthew Revell wrote:
> On 23 July 2010 08:50, Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 23 July 2010 08:47, Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 23 July 2010 08:33, Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> This came up in my Google alert: an Nvidia users forum post about
>>>> Launchpad bug pages being very slow to scroll in Firefox:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=6630abff90e878b0b6a7cd764591acd8&t=152295
>>>>
>>>> Just thought I'd post it here in case it was of interest.
>>>
>>> Javascript, j'accuse!
>>
>> Ah, no, upon *actually reading the thread* (gosh), it looks like it
>> appears to be a browser problem (Firefox is the culprit, though
>> Chromium is also described as not working very well.
>>
>> I'm not actually sure that there's a huge amount we can do about this.
> 
> Yeah, it looks like something to do with the way that Firefox holds
> the page in memory, perhaps. Nonetheless, I thought it was interesting
> that they cited Launchpad in particular.

If you can narrow down the test case for Firefox and find it's not a
driver issue, I'd be happy to upstream it and get it looked it.

Thanks,
Micah Gersten
Ubuntu Mozilla Team Member