112689 - browser very slow to restore after having been minimized

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 76831

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[William Stockall]

On Windows 2000 if the mozilla browser has been minimized it takes a long time
to restore if left inactive for any length of time.  I have had this happen with
at least the last two release builds (0.9.5 and 0.9.6).

Comment 1

[eberry]

This is probably expected operation under NT/2000.  The OS lets some memory
pages be swapped to disk or unmapped when when minimizing windows (called
trimming the working set), and they often must be brought back into memory when
the application is restored.  If your HD is churning during the restore process,
this is likely the issue - especially if other memory intensive applications
were running while Mozilla is minimized.  Note that this situation is worsened
by the fact that Mozilla leaks memory quite a bit, but that is another issue.  I
won't do it myself, but I suggest this bug be marked as invalid, and just let
the memory leak fixes handle some of this - and complain to Microsoft for the
rest.  It is possible that there is a bug in Mozilla, but I doubt it from the
description provided here.

Comment 2

[William Stockall]

Hard drive churning or not, is it reasonable for the browser to take on the
order of a minute to go from minimized to restored?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76831 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy dupe