WebKit-based apps are sluggish in latest Utopic

[Adam Dingle]

By the way, I just installed Utopic again and can now confirm that this
behavior occurs in a completely fresh install.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at medovina.org> wrote:

> Today I made a fresh install of the latest daily build of 14.10 (Utopic).
> Unfortunately applications that use WebKit, including Geary and Epiphany,
> are now strangely sluggish.  When I type characters (e.g. in a new message
> in Geary or in a form field in Epiphany) they don't echo for several
> seconds.  (During that time the system is apparently not consuming CPU.)
> Scrolling through pages that contain form fields in Epiphany is similarly
> painfully sluggish.
>
> I've filed a bug at
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit/+bug/1369693
>
> Still, this is strange enough that I thought I'd ask here: has anyone else
> seen this behavior?  This seems difficult to debug, and if I can't find a
> solution I'll probably have to drop back to Trusty.  Thanks -
>
> adam
>
>
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