207669 - Text appears as corrupt when viewing large plain text files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Occasionally, when view large text files, as I scroll down the page, the text
will suddenly turn corrupt.  See the attachment for a screen shot.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open URL to a plain text file that fairly large.
2. Scroll down the page using either the scroll bars or the PGUP/PGDN keys or
cursor keys
3. Text will suddenly appear corrupt

Actual Results:  
Text appears corrupt.

Expected Results:  
Text should appears as in the text file.

Reloading the page will usually show the text file correctly.  Also, this does
not consistently happen.

This is a minor problem, but I am filing it only because it could be related to
a bad pointer or a memory leak, so it might impact other issues.

Comment 1

[Alex Lee]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[Jeff D. Hanson]

WFM:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030604
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030606

Comment 3

[Alex Lee]

Remember that this is hard to reproduce, as it does not happen every time.  You
can try additional files at http://communicationsoffice.tripod.com/index1.html
which has a links to each of the transcripts.  Each transcript is just one large
text file.

I have also seen this running 1.31 on XP.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I've reloaded these scripts dozens of times and cannot reproduce with Mozilla
1.7 Alpha on windows.