scrolling in Firefox 3.03 with Hardy loads cpu 90-100%

[daveP]

I recently installed an ATI Radeon 9200 video card, and have its open source drivers installed (I believe version 8.532). Since then, when scrolling in Firefox 3.03, the cpu load shoots up to 90-100% and the scrolling is -of course- choppy. I disabled Advanced Desktop Effects, thinking that was the cause, but to no help.

I have seen similar reports of this, and others do it when Flash or Java content is in the page being scrolled. Mine will do it in google, help forums, this reporting page, everything!

Here are some basic system specs;
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 x86 (kernel 2.6.24-19-generic) / AMD Athlon XP 2600+ / 1gB RAM / Radeon 9200

If you need more info, please let me know. Please keep in mind that I am fairly new to Ubuntu/Linux in your responses.

Many thanks in advance!

[Jonathan Carter (jonathan)]

I can confirm that scrolling in Firefox is quite CPU intensive. This is with Firefox 3.0.1 on hardy with a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 1250 display chip (not sure if that's even relevant here).

[Jonas (peace-dammit)]

Sounds like a duplicate of Bug #193578

[Dan Quade (danquade)]

Happens with NVidia too (all driver versions)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Can someone please decline intrepid nomination

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Jonas: From the comments on this bug they seem to not be the same the other bug is skipping in audio this is only related to video

[José Ernesto Dávila Pantoja (josernestodavila)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!