Confirmed with Firefox 10.0.2, nvidia 295.20, Ubuntu 11.10.
Offending pages include Launchpad bug tracker, due to its 64x22031 sprite sheet https://bugs.launchpad.net/+icing/rev14914/icon-sprites and the new Dropbox design, which features a whopping 64x30030 sprite sheet (which performs even worse than the Launchpad one): https://www2.dropbox.com/static/1331165834/images/sprites/sprites.png
As more and more web applications switch to sprite sheets to reduce page loading latency, new examples are going to become more frequent.
Confirmed with Firefox 10.0.2, nvidia 295.20, Ubuntu 11.10.
Offending pages include Launchpad bug tracker, due to its 64x22031 sprite sheet /bugs.launchpad .net/+icing/ rev14914/ icon-sprites /www2.dropbox. com/static/ 1331165834/ images/ sprites/ sprites. png
https:/
and the new Dropbox design, which features a whopping 64x30030 sprite sheet (which performs even worse than the Launchpad one):
https:/
As more and more web applications switch to sprite sheets to reduce page loading latency, new examples are going to become more frequent.