This is almost certainly due to the huge sprite sheet that Launchpad uses. As #32 mentioned, the 64x22031 sprite sheet https://bugs.launchpad.net/+icing/rev14914/icon-sprites is to blame; disabling it using an ad blocker or equivalent fixes performance.
The new Dropbox design also triggers this bug, with the offender being this sprite sheet (64x30030): https://www2.dropbox.com/static/1331165834/images/sprites/sprites.png As more and more web applications switch to sprite sheets to reduce page loading latency, this is going to spring up more and more. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605567 Title: Extremely slow painting of launchpad.net bug details page with nvidia driver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/605567/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
