203280 - v5-1.4a nightly binary resizes browser window slowly (jerky) and uses up to 98% cpu.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 185533

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[P.Haroah]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+

v5-1.4a nightly binary resizes browser window slowly (jerky) and uses up to 98% cpu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open any web page preferably a busy one.
2.resize the browser window.
3.

Actual Results:  
jerky window action, freezes & delays. Other apps suffer as resources are snatched.

Expected Results:  
smooth like i.e.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Hannon]

I can confirm this bug to exist on the Firebird site
(http://texturizer.net/firebird/)  *IF* you "lock" the sidebar menu.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030424 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Please try a new nightly with a fresh profile.

Comment 3

[P.Haroah]

Tried that. Still the same thoough.

Comment 4

[noririty]

from Comment #0
> Expected Results:  
> smooth like i.e.

IE follows OS resize pref (show window contents while dragging).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185533 ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.