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What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Element

Box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
• elem.clientLeft, elem.clientTop, elem.clientWidth, elem.clientHeight
• elem.getClientRects(), elem.getBoundingClientRect()

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Enable Shared Folders on vmware Fusion (4.x)+ (Example OS: Linux Ubuntu 12.x as guest OS)

1. First update your linux system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo aptitude -y safe-upgrade

2. Reboot your system just in case you have a new kernel
sudo shutdown -r  now