I see the same, but top shows the spike in Xorg, not in Firefox. Disabling the screen (and therefore the shared and high) stylesheet makes things snappy again.
Dell Precision 670 (dual Xeon 3.0) Ubuntu 8.10 2.6.24-19-generic Firefox 3.0.1 nVidia NV45GL also using the restricted "nvidia" driver -- Firefox is VERY slow rendering pragprog.com; becomes almost unusable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207454 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
