Text entering is very slow on Gitlab sites with Epiphany 3.28 and webkit 2.20
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- epiphany 3.28.1
- webkit2gtk 2.22.0 (backported from Ubuntu 18.10)
- libsoup 2.62.1 plus a fix for CVE-2018-12910
On GitLab sites, entering text in text entry fields is very slow.
I was not able to reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 18.10 which includes epiphany 3.29.91 and libsoup 2.63.92.
I performed this test case using VirtualBox but I didn't think that should matter.
Test Case
- Visit https://salsa.debian.org/
- Click Sign In
- Try entering a bunch of characters in the username field.
More Info
And now a few minutes later, it seems to be performing ok. When I mentioned this issue on IRC a few days ago, there was a suggestion that it might be when the CPU is under load.
Meanwhile, I do see this message in the terminal I used to run epiphany:
$ epiphany-browser
Memory pressure relief: Total: res = 303443968/288538624/-14905344,
res+swap = 294957056/294957056/0