Re: [Sheflug] Firefox delayed input

[Kim Wall <kim [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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John Southern wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> On Saturday I met a user who was very upset with his system and was wondering 
> if he had to do yet another installation.
>
> His problem was that for some reason Firefox had become slow.
> Not its actual rendering, but for inputting text.
> An example was when he opened Google and started to type a query. The cursor 
> did not appear in the search box and he had finished typing a couple of words 
> before any characters appeared in the box.
> Entering a URL also had the same delay.
I've seen this sort of behaviour on a HDinstalled Knoppix system (which 
we assumed was some sort of X issue at the time), but also more recently 
on a friend's old pentium laptop running Windows 98.  Entering text in 
web forms was unusably slow - maybe 1.5 characters per second, though 
the address bar seemed okay.  Other applications were fine.

That it occurs on both linux and windows suggests that its a Firefox 
issue, not an OS one, but beyond that I've no idea.  I've been happily 
using Firefox on both linux and win2000 boxen without problems for ages.

A quick google doesn't seem to bring up anything of help.

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kim.
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