That example does work fine I agree. On further investigation this is an issue on Edgy as well as Fiesty. The major difference the example given and my SVG is that mine is loaded via an Embed TAG, and can be quite wide (fills 1600x) making use of many computed rectangles, shadings, images and text (its an org chart).
I wonder of the complexity of the SVG is on the edge of being rendered quickly enough. Hardware is Opteron 248, system has 3GB ram... If the SVG is embedded (ebmed tag) and the scrollbar is used to view half way accross the rendered image, switching tabs does seem to take a second or so more. My generated image can be rendered with no delay if scrolled far left (origin), but if I start to scroll right (and test tab switching), after about 5cm of scroll the 'delay' described in this bug kicks in. Something about changing the viewport of an embedded image? -- Feisty: Firefox/SVG re-rendered (slow) during a tab-switch. https://launchpad.net/bugs/88320 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs