Fairly obvious that it's slower than IE? Says who?
You treat "repaint" as if it's a single thing that's either faster in all cases or slower in all cases. Browser rendering is a very complex thing and some pages render faster in one browser while other pages render faster in another.
You treat "repaint" as if it's a single thing that's either faster in all cases or slower in all cases. Browser rendering is a very complex thing and some pages render faster in one browser while other pages render faster in another.