Comment 16 for bug 223238

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 223238] Re: Extremely slow Ajax/Javascript performance in Firefox 3 for Linux

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:35AM -0000, phinn wrote:
> This problem STILL persists with Firefox 3.0 (final).
>
> Any website that uses Ajax, or a lot of fancy effects runs very slow.
>
> http://www.shacknews.com/ is a good example, whenever the image in the
> big box transitions to the next it slows the browser to a crawl.
>
> This ONLY occurs for me with the NVIDIA drivers enabled. Therefor I have
> no Compiz-fusion, games, Google Earth, etc if I want to run Firefox 3.0
>

two main cases still cause issues:

 1. floating and absolute positioned div on the site
 2. a lot of css borders

 (3. some accelleratoin modes make tiled background cause CPU bustage)

anything of those you see on your sites?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander