975: Launching and moving comment box, backspacing over text are very slow

cla****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.)
March 31, 2009 
Firefox 3.0.7, Win2003 64-bit.  In the latest version of Reviewboard at
VMware, loading the comments box takes a couple of seconds.  The same delay
occurs when I click and drag the comment box to a new location - there is a
long delay before the box begins to move.

I also experience delays of about 400ms per character while backspacing
through typed text in any comment box, review field, or reply field.  My
box isn't slow and my browser isn't old, and these problems didn't happen
in the previous version of Reviewboard.
chipx86
#1 chipx86 
What extensions are you using in Firefox?

The textarea is actually just a standard textarea, so I'm not sure why it'd be
slower, given that the old one was a textarea + a bunch of processing per key stroke.
So we should figure out what it is in your browser that may be causing this. Does the
problem go away if you restart the browser?
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#2 cla****@gmai***** (Google Code) (Is this you? Claim this profile.) 
Yes, both issues go away when I restart the browser.  The comment box is still a 
little slow, but not horrible.  It might be related to long-running browser sessions, 
I'll see if I can correlate that and update the issue if it happens again.

My extensions are ColorfulTabs and Download Statusbar.
chipx86
#3 chipx86 
This might be faster in general with the new jQuery, but it's pretty much out of our
control. Part of this is browser, and if part is JavaScript, it's the jQuery-ui
script that controls all the moving logic.
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