Smooth scrolling on a Kindle Fire - scroll

I've created a simple example page which shows my problem: http://jsbin.com/owivak/1/
Scrolling this page in a browser works fine on most platforms, the lovely green header bar stays where it is and the other content scrolls behind it as it should, it's a fixed header.
The problem I'm having is with the Amazon Silk browser on the Kindle Fire. I realise this is a fairly low powered device, but it's not too low powered to be able scroll this incredibly simple page... except it is!
The problem is that on the Kindle Fire in its Silk browser the header appears to be being redrawn as you scroll and looks incredibly glitchy.
Has anyone ever come across this or a similar problem? And any suggestions on how to solve?

It appears this was a bug in the Kindle Fire Silk Browser. Updating to the latest software (10.3 at time of writing) solves the issue.

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You can see a GIF here
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Can anybody shed any light as to what might be the cause, particularly if you cannot replicate it?
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Anyway have a look. This is what i see when the page loads:
and this is when i hover the id card:
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Currently I am stuck on this weird problem that occurs when one tries to reload the webpage containing the plugin. The image that was being displayed before the reload will stay stuck on the top of screen. The new reloaded plugin will be alive and well behind it but the old image will stay stuck their on the screen forever. If I scroll or resize the browser or even change URLs the image will stay put, however If I move the browser the image will follow. The image stays after closing a tab, but leaves when closing the window
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http://i.imgur.com/asB7i.jpg
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Hope this helps someone anyway!

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