198230 - Continuous slow refresh makes acrobat plugin unusable in gtk2 embedding

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: GTK Widget, defect)

Description

[Philip Langdale]

When a pdf file is loaded by the acrobat plugin in gtk-embedded mozilla, whether
in galeon or TestGtkEmbed, the plugin refreshes continuously and very slowly,
taking 10 seconds or so do a full refresh and then starting again. This renders
the plugin unusable. In full mozilla-the-browser, this behaviour is not observed.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Have acrobat and plugin installed and verified to work in mozilla-the-browser
2) Browse to the given url with TestGtkEmbed
3) Watch bad things happen.

Comment 1

[Philip Langdale]

Sorry, that's gtk2 embedding only. gtk1 embedding does not show this problem.

Comment 2

[Philip Langdale]

Well, this bad behaviour is no longer reproduceable. As the bug was never
confirmed from within mozilla.org and no explicit fix was recorded, I'm closing
as WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Anand Kumria]

I'm certainly seeing this behaviour with galeon 1.3.3.

Are you using newer (CVS) versions of either Mozilla or Galeon that makes this
problem go away?

Comment 4

[John King]

This bug looks like it depends on #198954.  galeon-bin hogs all the CPU time
when viewing a .pdf file with the acrobat plulgin, just as mozilla does.  The
continuous redraw/refresh seems to be characteristic of gtk-embedded mozilla
only, however, as regular mozilla does not exhibit this behavior.