[karmic regression] firefox 3.5 extremely slow autoscroll on some pages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
I have recently updated from Jaunty to Karmic and I experience extremely slow autoscroll with some pages, apparently long pages with many images (a random example of a page on which I experience this bug: http://
Expected behaviour:
Smooth, fast scrolling
Actual behaviour:
Very slow scrolling, X system is unresponsive to commands for several seconds, 100% CPU usage.
Longer description and additional notes:
I use a lot the Firefox autoscroll feature (Preferences-
This happens both using Compiz and Metacity.
This does not happen when scrolling normally with the mouse wheel, unless I select the "Use smooth scrolling" option.
This didn't happen at all with Firefox 3.0; furthermore, I did try for a while Shiretoko on Jaunty and the problem didn't occur.
I have also tried disabling some of the firefox extensions I'm using, but it didn't help.
I can provide any other information as requested to inspect this bug in greater detail.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 13:11:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.4+nobinonly
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
This happens to me as well. Bug #437703 is a duplicate.