Pathfinder sheets not displaying properly in FireFox

Hello. I'm running FireFox version 24.8.0 (64-bit) under linux, and I get the screen attached whenever I look at my sheets. As you can see, the selection tab is unreadable, making this sheet difficult to use. Specifically, I'm using the sheets by Samuel Marino (simply listed as "Pathfinder"). Under chromium (an unsupported browser), it takes up 100% of my CPU when I open any of these sheets (separate topic opened on this), but it displays properly, and under Windows 8.1 and Chrome (a supported browser), roll20 responsiveness comes down to a crawl (although the main chrome process appears to be mostly idling, and one of the background processes for chrome is running at around 25% CPU time (on an i7)), but it also displays properly (I can take this into a separate thread if that's more convenient). It seems Firefox is the only way I can run these sheets without slowing down to a crawl, but I can't use it if it doesn't have the navigation tab up top.

One thing you may want to do is use a simpler Pathfinder sheet. The Pathfinder sheet that Sam made is pretty complicated and can cause a slowdown on some systems.

Riley D. said:

Is there a reason you're on Firefox 24? The latest is 32. I'm not sure what the release cycle is like on Linux, though.

Simply because my distro (gentoo) marked firefox versions beyond 24 as "unstable". I didn't even notice there was a later version, will try updating and see if that fixes it.

EDIT: Updating firefox to version 32.0.3 fixed the display issue, but now performance is as bad as it was under Windows 8.1 and Chrome (meaning every click takes 2-3 seconds to respond). Is this a known issue? I've tried:

• Chromium 36.0.1985.143 under linux 64
• Chrome under Windows 8.1 (I can get the version, but I'd have to reboot)
• Firefox 32.0.3 under linux 64

These sheets each cause the browser to peg the CPU at 100% and become very slow to respond in all of the above environments. Oddly, firefox 24 did not slow anything down at all, it just didn't display properly.

I'm starting a pathfinder game next monday... is there an easy way to migrate the player's sheets to some other character sheet (to save their work), or
are we going to have to manually migrate (if that's even possible)?

I can confirm that I have major slow down issues using Firefox 32.03(no extensions) once I open the character sheet. It even crashed the browser once. Runs fast and smooth on Chrome. Unusable on FF!

Vince: Which OS were you using? I tried Chrome under Win 8.1 and still had problems. I have yet to try straight-up chrome under linux...

I'm using win 8.1(64-bit) Works fine in Chrome 38.0.2125.101. Seems to run fine on my Linux Mint 17 box using FF 32.0.3 as well.

I just fired up chrome 38.0.2125.101 (64-bit) under linux and I get the same slow-down. I'm wondering if there's something else going on now...

I believe I'm using 32-bit ver of Chrome...
Update roll20 with the PF sheet worked fine on both 32-bit and 64-bit Chrome for me on Win8.1(64-bit)

It's something else, then. Not quite sure where to start looking to track this down :(

EDIT: It was something else. /me smacks himself in the forehead for not following directions in testing. The problem (for me, at least) was the "keeper" extension in firefox, chrome, and chromium. I'm guessing it was attempting to offer to store each field in the sheets in keeper, and of course the sheets are not designed for that. Anyone else attempting to run roll20 with this extension - go ahead and use keeper to login (that's what it's for, after all), then immediately disable keeper and start your game. It now works properly in Chromium under linux, I have not tried the others but I expect them to work just as well (and I think it only worked in firefox 24 because I had not gotten around to installing that extension to it).

I still have an issue in FF w/out any extensions installed.

Vince said:

I still have an issue in FF w/out any extensions installed.

You're right. It's not as bad as it was with Chrome and keeper, but CPU usage spikes to 50-60% under firefox (with no extensions), way beyond anything reasonable (but not 100% like before).

Riley D. said:

Do you have any other extensions installed, Richard?

Not me... I usually don't use firefox, I had only installed it to test on Roll20. The only reason I had Keeper installed was because I use a unique, randomly-generated and impossible-to-remember password on pretty much everything, and needed it to login.

Riley D. said:

Do you have any other extensions installed, Richard?

I don't want to hijack the thread, and I will start a new one if you like, but FF 32.0.3 w/out extensions is NOT working for me. Once I open the PF sheet, memory skyrockets to over 2+GB in task manager and crashes FF! Running windows 8.1 pro(64-bit) i-5 w/8GB. FF works fine inside roll20 campaign using everything else. I have uninstalled and reinstalled FF with the same result. Chrome works fine for me.