157691 - Animated Radar Loop kills mozilla eventually.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 110048

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Davidson]

If you go to the URL above and click on any city (eg. Melbourne) then click on
the "Loop" link at the top right of the image shown, Mozilla will load an
animated radar loop.  There are two problems here.

Problem 1)  On a dial-up connection, sometimes images do not download fully and
are not displayed - I believe this is because each time the radar javascript
attempts to display the next picture, it is cancelling the download in progress
and thus sometimes you only get 2 or 3 of the 4 images.  Using a local proxy
server (squid) solves this problem.

Problem 2) More severe I think.  When the radar is left looping for a while, say
5-10 minutes, Mozilla will die (disappear).  Before this happens, Mozilla gets
extremely slow and becomes lagged - in the sense that when you go into the Mail
client for instance and hit Get Msg or whatever, it does not register for a
couple of seconds.  This happens just before mozilla disappears.

Here is a brief description of my system in case you think maybe my system is ****.

AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz (non-XP processor)
256mb RAM, running WindowMaker at the desktop environment.
40Gb HDD with plenty of spare space on all partitions.
nVidia GeForce 4 Video Card (with nVidia drivers).

Netscape communicator v4.xx doesn't have any of the problems I mention above,
have not tried with Netscape 6.  From the mozilla "about" page:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3

Cya.

Comment 1

[Damir Perisa]

Problem 1: must be the problem you mentioned with javascript; solution: use a proxy

Problem 2: worksforme 
               -on win98 2002071508; 
                i let the radar in loop-mode for about 20min - no problem accured 
               -on linux kernel 2.2.18 (i know it's old, but stable:-)
                same test about 20min - no problem - general notice:
                mozilla is much slower on X11 than on win32

Comment 2

[Damir Perisa]

ever tried to solve P2 by using another window-manager? (try one of the classic
ones)

Comment 3

[Ian Neal]

Using BuildID 2002071208 on WinXP, I see a problem too after leaving the loop
running a while, the image stops changing as it loops round, so even though the
counter changes the image doesn't.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

resolving as dup of bug 110048

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110048 ***

Comment 5

[Diego Biurrun]

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