Comment 76 for bug 677551

(In reply to comment #72)
> (In reply to comment #70)
> > (In reply to comment #69)
> > > (In reply to comment #67)
> > > > People are reporting it also for facebook comment entry, and entering a comment
> > > > in for input.mozilla.org, but if there's another bug for "slow on small text
> > > > fields too" then I'm happy to take it there.
> > > >
> > > > (I do notice that input.m.o also has a character-counter, hmm.)
> > >
> > > The twitter issue is somewhat specific, so if there are issues with entering
> > > text in other small text boxes then I would like to investigate each of them.
> > >
> > > I tried a random facebook comment field, seemed fine to me.
> >
> > Those are textareas, so they're affected by this bug.
>
> But people don't typically enter comments long enough in them to see the effect
> of this bug, do they?

Maybe... Anyway we have legit use cases for textareas which lets them grow enough for this bug to show (web mail apps, for example).

(In reply to comment #73)
> I think users would find that order of growth to be a reasonable proxy for
> "Firefox sucks". Anyone disagree?

I second that.