188889 - Slow window switching

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Benedikt Nimmervoll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

If I am working with two or more mozilla windows, switching between them wastes
a lot of time. But tab switching is quite fast.
I have had already installed this mozilla version on this computer and it did
fine. But one week ago I installed windows XP again, this time I dated it up to
Service Pack 1. Could that be the reason?
The PC is a Athlon 1600+ equipped with 256MB DDR RAM. I think, that should be
enough "power".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open 2 Mozilla windows
2.switch between the windows via tab bar
3.

Actual Results:  
slow window switching

Expected Results:  
fast window switching ;-)

Comment 1

[Patrick]

There has been an issue with installng win XP SP1. Probably bug 173985

Comment 2

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

That issue regarded a crash/install problems. QA verified it fixed 2002-10-17, a
month before his build was installed. Not a dupe of that bug, at least.

Investigating.

Comment 3

[Gavin Sinclair]

Sounds very similar to a problem I had - when using NVidia driver 4.0.7.2

Details of this in bug 176940.

Problem sorted for me using older driver or newer driver from www.nvidia.com

Comment 4

[Gavin Sinclair]

Benedikt,

Do you have a geforce graphics card or other nvidia card. If so are you using
the drivers updated by windows update?

Comment 5

[Benedikt Nimmervoll]

The problem was really an old nVidia-driver, version 4.7.02 as already
mentioned. the windows xp driver had the same problem.
But now I installed a more recent nVidia-driver and it works fine :)
Thanks for your help!!!!