Closed Bug 165191 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Extremely poor performance when viewing livejournal.com

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: doofer-public, Assigned: asa)

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Details

The performance of Mozilla when viewing livejournal.com is terrible. That is, scrolling around, entering new entries, everything, the whole browser seems to be tied up doing something else. The html for the site is very poor, the w3 validator and HTML tidy both have big problems with it (HTML Tidy refuses to touch it before you fix some errors), so it could be related to poor performance when rendering confusing HTML. The site also uses lots of tables, which I know there are problems with. Since this has been an issue for a long time, I am guessing it is unrelated to anything currently in the database, though that could just be wishful thinking!
1) reporter : which mozilla ? 2) clean install ? As far as I can browse this site, speed was normal using it. Using Mozilla 1.1 final - WinXP
This has been happening for a long time with nightlies and the recent 1.1 release. Generally on my 2k box I unzip builds to clean directories, so there is no old stuff in there. This happens on Linux, Windows 2K, and Solaris on my work machine (though less noticable - it is an UltraSparc III), home machine (750MHz Athlon), and house mates machine (a Cerleron 500 I think). The scrolling is very slow, hinting that redraw is being lagged by something, and entering new journal entries is extremely painful - you can see the lag in writing text, and if you delete using the backspace key you can really feel it. It is worse than writing my mail over ssh to the states (which I do all day) from the UK!
I just noticed this too. I just installed the 1.1 general release. The site is terribly slow. It can't scroll. Typing in text makes the HD run and the animated icons pause. And it won't display the text until I've stopped typing. This hasn't happened any place else yet.
Works fine for me on Linux build 2002090508, with kernel 2.4.19 i686, 512MB RAM, XFree86 4.2.0-3, glibc 2.2.5-34
OK, I have been doing some snooping and I think that this is a Windows only problem. I am typing this bug comment under Linux / KDE3 and everything is fine.
OS: All → Windows 2000
Also seeing this on Mozilla 1.1 final on Windows XP.
I've noticed this problem too with 1.2 Alpha. It is not a problem with 1.1, nor with 1.0.1. I'm running WinNT 4.0SP6, 256 Mb RAM, 600 Mhz Celeron. It was also a problem with 1.2 Alpha on my laptop (700 Mhz [I think] Celeron, 512 Mb RAM, WinNT 4.0SP5). My current version of Mozilla (on both my laptop and my desktop) is 1.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826) and it does NOT have this problem. It is also a problem on UnixWare 7.1.1 with 1.0, so it is not a windows only problem.
This appears to be fixed in current builds.
if it keeps working, feel free to resolve this as works-for-me or fixed. If the problem has come back, please adjust the severity to something else than enhancement.
Last couple of builds I downloaded have had a nasty habit of crashing (in windows) when using tabs and typing stuff in the URL bar, so I have put builds on hold for a bit. I will check back soon on the matter.
This problem is also present in Phoenix 0.4, though not nearly as bad as in the Mozilla builds.
I've come across other pages online that demonstrate this same bug. For example: http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/sub_category.php?high_level_category_id=2&category_id=1&sub_category_id=476550b5ae2cd4b18a871f233247eff9 HP's printer pages seem to have this problem. Can someone else out there check that page and see if they have the same problem?
Not an enhancement
Severity: enhancement → normal
The problem persists even in recent builds. I've just downloaded, for example, the latest version of Phoenix, which is using the 20021207 build of Gecko, and the problem is still there. Further information: I've installed the Preferences Toolbar, and one of the features is the ability to toggle the browser.display.use_document_colors pref. When this is turned off, the problem vanishes. I found this out quite by accident the other day, and I dunno if it's at all helpful.
I've encountered similar problems, with Mozilla 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 under Windows. It was fine in 1.0. Although in my case browsing and so on is fine and it's only entering text which is painfully slow: characters appear at a rate of only 1 or 2 per second. Not encountered under Linux.
I note in passing that the latest build of Phoenix for Windows also has the same problem I described above. Which would suggest something in the underlying engine.
Is anyone still experiencing this problem with Mozilla 1.3b or later?
I still experience the problem, but it is considerably less pronounced than before. It's now only noticable on pages where there are many comments (such as http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=news&itemid=64767 ). I no longer see the related problem of slow entry in textboxes on the LiveJournal site. I would not consider this to be "fixed" yet, but it is much better.
WFM I dont experience any issues visiting http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=news&itemid=64767 or http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/sub_category.php?high_level_category_id=2&category_id=1&sub_category_id=476550b5ae2cd4b18a871f233247eff9 Both pages are render quickly and are very fluid on my PIII, 500MHz, 380MB RAM running Mozilla 1.3 Candidate Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030308
Let me verify with a more recent build...I believe I have 20030210 on my machines right now. (It'll have to wait until I get home tonight.)
With 20030312 the problem is still there, but it isn't very noticeable. It's slightly worse on the HP-at-home.com page (see Comment #12), resulting in jerky scrolling if you go particularly fast. I dunno how much the development team wants to keep pounding on this...is there a GOODENOUGH resolution for bugs? ;)
Page works without any problems for me Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Reporter: Can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of Mozilla (for example, 1.4rc3)? If so, then please comment again with details. If not, then please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks.
All working fine now
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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