101556 - page loads very slow, mouse pointer becomes busy and freezes page then comes back to normal

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[shrirang khanzode]

seen on mac branch 0924

Launch Netscape 6.1 and open a new Navigator window.
3) Go to http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother2/ (while it remains -- the show
ended last week).
observe the page loading stops in between nd the mouse pointer becomes busy

4) Click on "Click here to watch the complete, un-aired Big Brother Episode No.
28" towards the bottom right of the page, to the left of the poll.

again, the mouse pointer becomes busy and page load stops temporarily.

Javascript console shows the following error :

Warning :  Useless Expression 
Source File: http://www.cbs.com/Common/js/core.js Line 49 line 58 line 203. 

Note, this is mac only. works ok on win branch.

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

werid...

Comment 2

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Indeed, I did not see this problem under Netscape 6.1 or Mozilla 0.9.3, but 
0.9.4 and onward have exhibited this problem.  It's a behavior that I have seen 
under Netscape 4.7x at times, but Mozilla builds pre-0.9.4 seem to be fine (at 
least as far back as I can remember).

Comment 3

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Wow!  I just downloaded the latest 0.9.4 branch build, and the lags on all pages
are gone!  The background on the mentioned page paints just fine. 
Unfortunately, every time I type a space it jumps to the bottom of the page. 
Very annoying -- is there a bug on that?

Comment 4

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

With Mozilla (Mac OS 9.2.1) I do not see the lag I saw on the September builds
(and the text input jumping is gone as well).  However, on MANY sites popup
windows fail to show up -- including the one that shows the clips for the
un-aired episode of this television show.  The window's titles will show up in
the Tasks menu, but I can't get the windows themselves to show up no matter what
way I try.  I haven't set any preferences to hide popups, but it could be that
my use of a Netscape 6.1 profile could be triggering some kind of adverse
reaction.  I'll try with a clean profile and report back.  (I checked a few days
ago to see if there had been a bug filed on this, but I couldn't find one.)

Comment 5

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Filed bug 107471 on the popup problem.  As far as this bug goes, if the reporter
no longer sees it, I think it's bedtime.

Comment 6

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Does anybody see this problem anymore?  I sure don't.

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

big brother's doing ok now.verif on 0220 trunk on OS 9.1

Comment 8

[shrirang khanzode]

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