title: hide/show are *very* slow
body: <p>I'm currently using the hide/show functions in jQuery to help filter a table into groups from a select box.</p>
  
  <p>The actual code works fine, but is incredibly slow, sometimes taking a minute or two to execute.</p>
  
  <p>I switched the code so instead of hide() and show() it uses <code>css({'display':'none'});</code> and <code>css({'display':'block'});</code> - <strong>the speed difference is simply incredible, it now takes just seconds, but in Firefox the table data is all squashed for each row.</strong></p>
  
  <p>This isn't the end of the world since here we almost exclusively use Internet Explorer, but I was still wondering if there's a way around it since a fair amount of people (myself included) do use Firefox.</p>