[ltp] SOT: Konqueror & Firefox slow to take text on Thinkpad (not Opera)

[Harry Mangalam]

Hi All,

Sorry for the Slightly OT post, but I'm running out of ideas about 
this.

I use Kubuntu Feisty on a T60 (4G ram, so no memory problems) and my 
favorite browser is Konqeror.  However, after about a day after a 
re-start, both Konqy and FF2 (but never Opera) get very slow to 
accept keystrokes in the URL slot or in filling forms.  The CPU is 
usually idle, and once they start accepting text, they behave 
normally, but if I switch windows and then come back, they again take 
~4-5s (K) to 2-3s(FF) to respond again.
They are not slow to load pages once the page is requested and 
scrolling takes place at normal speed unless I try to type which then 
inhibits the scrolling until the text is accepted.  Just the key 
input is affected, and ONLY those 2 apps are affected in that way.

KMail is sometimes affected in a similar way - it will start to slow 
down in the acceptance of keystrokes so I can outtype the screen 
updates, but that's rare and seems to be unrelated.

I've submitted bug reports to Ubuntu and KDE, but to no avail, and 
I've not seen it on other hardware, so I thought it might be hardware 
or thinkpad related.

Any others seeing this?

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Cheers, Harry
Harry J Mangalam -  949 285 4487(c) (email for fax)
    hjm@tacgi.com  [plain text preferred]