firefox, scaled images, and performance?

Jatin K ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 05:13:09 UTC 2010


On Monday 27 December 2010 10:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed a distinct tendency in firefox to
> get hopelessly bogged down and unresponsive when it is
> displaying a vary large image it has scaled to fit on the
> screen, and then to become perfectly responsive once you
> click on the image to display it full size?
>
> 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?
Same here ..... don't know why ????!!!!! magic

but not in chrome

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