firefox, scaled images, and performance?

[Chris Tyler]

On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> For example:
> 
> http://www.widescreenwallpapers.in/bulkupload/widescreen/HD/Arctic%20sunrise.jpg
> 
> If I try to do a "save image as" and navigate around the
> file browser to save the image in a directory it takes
> a little time to navigate to, the browser gets all hung
> up.
> 
> If I first click on the image to make it full size, I have
> no problem navigating anywhere.
> 
> What the heck is firefox doing? Am I the only one who
> sees it?

I tried this here and see about the same responsiveness whether scaled
or full-size.

Which fedora release, firefox version, and arch are you using?

-Chris