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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:

> 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.

Bug:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/223238

Background:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/537298

Thanks

Gary