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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #207454
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 207454

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Robb Kidd (ubuntu-thekidds) wrote : Re: Firefox is VERY slow rendering pragprog.com; becomes almost unusable

I see the same, but top shows the spike in Xorg, not in Firefox.

Disabling the screen (and therefore the shared and high) stylesheet makes things snappy again.

Dell Precision 670 (dual Xeon 3.0)
Ubuntu 8.10
2.6.24-19-generic
Firefox 3.0.1
nVidia NV45GL also using the restricted "nvidia" driver