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Slow typing in twitter, how to fix?

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bgehret
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Super slow typing only on twitter with firefox, IE works just fine. How do I fix?

Super slow typing only on twitter with firefox, IE works just fine. How do I fix?

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cor-el
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See this old forum thread

Twitter seems to use JavaScript to calculate the character count and that script is causing problems.

http://miloping.com/content/2009/05/1/twitters-char-counter-js-obtrusively-slow Twitter's char counter JS is obtrusively slow | Miloping