I had to take time out from skritter for around two weeks. Since I came back it's been frustratingly slow. I have around 500 words to get through.

When I select 'next' the last character stays on the screen. Far too often I do a stroke and it's not picked up. When I move the mouse around black dots appear all over the screen.

I am using Skritter from China, on the most recent stable version firefox from UBUNTU. My internet connection is fast.

Is there anything I can do to speed things up a bit or anything that might be slowing things down from my end?

Thanks

Hi Chris2012--sorry about the slowness! I think you might be getting the same Linux Firefox Flash interaction bugs as described in this thread:

http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=237666293&comments=13

Do those reports match your experiences? (Ignoring the manual-saving-of-reviews issue discussed there; that was something else.)

Right now, the only workaround I can suggest would be to try an older version of Firefox, from before Firefox 17, where the Skritter Flash performance started tanking like this.

I just got "still looking for one to add" or something just looping and not getting anywhere, like the server is not responding.
I will try chrome

Nope "Still looking for one to add" now in chrome as well.
Well I'm off to work.

I had troubles with the new Flash ( 11.3 and up ) on Ubuntu with Chrome. I disabled it and used an old Flash version ( 11.2 r202 ).
Here's my Dropbox link for it:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5814768/libflashplayer.so

I am Still getting the black sprinkles, but at least it's fast.

Okay, I downloaded Chromium Browser and there is a marked improvement in using Skritter.

I don't mind having/using Chromium just for skritter.

Thanks for your help. I've booked marked the other discussion in case it slows again!