Google Docs spreadsheet performance is poor in Firefox 4

With Google Docs spreadsheets in Firefox 4 I experience a significant amount of slowdown and unresponsiveness when loading, editing or navigating any given document. This seems to be tied to hardware acceleration - if I deselect "Use hardware acceleration when available" or change "gfx.direct2d.disabled" to true I do not have this problem.

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