Lag when typing web address in location bar in Mozilla Firefox

[hurrikenny]

I have been testing out the Mozilla Firefox browser and IE browser getting them to go to the same webpage. In IE it keeps up with my typing, but in Mozilla there is a lag and it even omits letters. I know that the web address is correct because the correct page loads. It doesnt seem to lag in Internet Explorer only in Firefox for some reason. I am going to the exact same sites and both pages seem to load quickly in each browser, it is just that Mozilla lags when reading the letters out to me. I am using a 1.6Ghz netbook, 1GB ram with Windows XP home to test it with.

[jteh]

This is an issue with Mozilla firing too many events. We can try to improve the situation in NVDA, but this requires a huge rewrite of some of our core code, and from what I can determine, it won't even fix the issue completely.

The relevant issue in Mozilla is  MozillaBug:414491.

[aleksey_s]

Replying to jteh:

This is an issue with Mozilla firing too many events. We can try to improve the situation in NVDA, but this requires a huge rewrite of some of our core code,

Actually, the work is already done (see BZR branch:  http://bzr.nvaccess.org/nvda/winEventsInprocess/). From my experience it also improves the situation when application such as firefox opens or closes (NVDA lags at that time probably due to a lot of events being fired).