also sprach Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.01.07.0625 +0100]:
> > which uses S5/JavaScript/CSS to render a presentation makes IW
> > crawl and take the entire system with it: X will become mostly
> > unusable for extended periods of time: even though the mouse
> > moves fine, it appears as if the window manager gets little to
> > no CPU slices as window focus doesn't move and workspace
> > switches take minutes!
> 
> I can't reproduce this myself, changing slides does seem fairly
> CPU intensive, but I'm not noticing any significant slowdowns on
> my machine. What are your box's specs like?

"enough".

> > I've observed similar behaviour when JavaScript was in use which
> > shades the page to display a DOM "dialog box" (cf.
> > http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2007.07.24_iceweasel-firefox-brings-you-the-windows-experience).
> 
> I think you've changed your site, do you have another example?

The content is the same still, no?

> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387196 may be
> > related, according to James Andrewart.
> 
> Hmm that bug appears to be about supporting the google
> safebrowsing protocol. How is that related?

Not sure at all. Just that webpages which shade the window to
display a DHTML "dialog" cause similar slowdowns. The phishing
protection built into Firefox exhibits this.

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