* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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 don't doubt that it should be enough, I'm just trying to rule out a
relative difference in CPU performance that might explain why I can't
reproduce it.
 
> > > 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?

Ah I misunderstood what you meant. The suspicious site also doesn't
slow down my system either.

Hmm. Any extensions installed? Can you try run in -safe-mode and see
if it makes any difference?

> > > 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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