100622 - The browser repaints the screen excessively when loading this page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[bryanck]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091303

When loading the page specified by the URL above, Mozilla redraws the screen
several times, which causes the page to flicker. I believe this was introduced
in 0.9.4 - I don't remember this happening in 0.9.3.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter "http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2001/37.htm" in the address field.
2. Click the "Go" button, or press enter
3. Watch the page load.

Actual Results:  The page flickers as it is loading.

Expected Results:  The page should not flicker as it is loading.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to layout.

looks like we reflow a _lot_ on this page... partially because the server gives
us data pretty slowly.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming issue described under Sept 17th build. Tested under Mac OS X and
Windows ME.

Comment 3

[Marc Attinasi]

I see it too, on a new build, but NS6.1 looks smooth as ice. regression?

Also, it looks like we do worse than reflowing a lot, the whole screen is
cleared out each time, then repainted. Definitely need to dig in and figure out
what is happening here. Also, are there other pages the do this? This page looks
pretty simple, albeit long.

Comment 4

[Chris Waterson]

It appears to load smoothly on Linux.

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

with 6.2 release on WINNT it flashes 4-5 times before completing the load.

Comment 6

[Markus Hübner]

where is the "go" button?

Comment 7

[Marc Attinasi]

This is working fine in my new 01/07 build - marking WORKSFORME