I'm seeing the same problem with Google Spreadsheets. I suggest increasing this to high priority - the original poster is correct that this issue is a fundamental measurement that new adopters will consider when deciding whether to keep Ubuntu or recommend it to friends. I am a new adopter of Ubuntu as of two days ago, but I am restoring Windows XP to the machine tonight, because of this issue.
Specs: Ubuntu 7.10 with the KDE Window Manager installed through apt-get. (So I'm running Kubuntu now.) Running on a computer with a single 3.5 GHz CPU and 512 MB of ram. The problem occurs when the Google Spreadsheet Firefox is the only program running. The Google Spreadsheet in question uses column sums, row sums, and is about 9 columns x 20 rows. It is one of 8 'sheets' in the same 'Document'. The sheet in question does not reference any cells from other sheets. Every action has a 1.5 second delay - selecting a cell, highlighting multiple cells, cutting, pasting, even pressing F2 to put a cell in edit mode. Again, I recommend making this a high priority issue, because the current generation of people considering adopting Ubuntu Linux are very likely to be Google Documents users. I myself found this issue to be a deal-breaker when attempting to switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux. - Edward -- Firefox eats 100% of CPU when opens a spreadsheet in google's documents and spreadsheets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
