Dropdowns flicker in chrome

[fuddl]

From #98

[slweeb]

This makes it pretty unusable really, it would be great if it could just cache it, I was excited to use this feature but this takes forever.

[loominade]

This what the new custom, non-flickering dropdown should look like:

Found on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences

[slweeb]

I didn't think about using a custom dropdown. Even so, if the options have to be queried for every single page, it will still take a while. Caching for like a day or an hour would be perfectly fine with the default dropdown.

[fuddl]

technically I should already use the http cache in this context.

Chome's fade animation seems to cause the slowdown since in firefox, the select is completly loaded in a fraction of the time without animation

[fuddl]

in the current version it should only flicker once or each property that the browser has never seen (and therefore cached) before. I think that makes this bug bearable. I also think the issue should be posted to the chromium bug tracker.

[fuddl]

bug filed