Poor performance of Chrome using background-size: cover

Question

I need to cover background in my site and I always see lags/slugs on mouse over or any other action. Do you have any idea how to fix this issue? I have a wo

Answer 1

It appears webkit doesn't cache the resized image and renders it every time, causing the lag.

You're out of luck when it comes to background-size in chrome.

I've seen people do it with Javascript / jQuery. See http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/jquery-backstretch/