118172 - Very bad performance on large ftp sites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85381

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Hanno Boeck]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011012
BuildID:    20011012

If I surf to very large ftp-sites and scroll down, mozilla has a very bad
performance.
If I press the down-key for some seconds, the whole system freezes until mozilla
is ready with scrolling (which takes quite a long time).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL above
2. hit the down-key for some seconds


Actual Results:  Whole system freezes, cannot do anything, can't switch to
another application.

Expected Results:  it still should be possible to use the system

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->bradley?

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Your build is nigh on 2 months old.  A newer one might be better (but maybe not).
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Also, what view are you using?  XUL Viewer (with twisties) or HTML viewer?

The page loads fine for me in 2002010408 Linux with HTML viewer which is the
default.  XUL viewer currently has a lot of problems.

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This WFM. I think this was changed after 0.9.6 (to split up the large <table>

Comment 4

[benc]

REOPEN to dupe.

Comment 5

[benc]

RESOLVED DUPE:
reporter, please look at that bug, and VERIFY if you can see the 500 row/split
tables.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85381 ***