This I believe is down to the CSS attributes TMV is using. TMV uses firefox and webkit specific CSS to round off corners:
-moz-border-radius: {radius};
-webkit-border-radius: {radius};
Other factors such as javascript intensive pages (the view page), high amounts of page stucture, high amounts of images will also affect the rendering time for your browser.
It shouldn't however affect your scrolling speed (rendering) at all. Sounds like a bug with your firefox, or something else within your system. Flash can also be one of the biggest bitches. TMV does nothing different to the other huge web applications, so I wouldn't consider it a bug at all.