215413 - A page with numerous links (+1000) takes very long to load in Mozilla and friends

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81993

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Bruce Best]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Build Identifier: All current mozilla/firebird/galeon browsers

A page with many (+1000) links, no images, and no tables, such as the above 
URL, will take much longer to load in Mozilla, Firebird, Galeon etc. than in 
non-Mozilla browsers such as Konqueror, Lynx, Netscape 4.7, and Microsoft 
Internet Explorer. The 300k HTML page will load in 1-3 seconds in the latter, 
but can take over a minute in Mozilla-based browers. 
 
This behaviour seems to be consistent across different versions and variations 
of Mozilla-based browsers.   
 
See thread at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=18696 for further 
details on this bug. 
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page such as the above URL 
 
Actual Results:  
The page took anywhere from 30 seconds to one minute to load, depending on 
whether the file in question was on a local drive, network or internet. 

Expected Results:  
The page should load much faster, as is the case with other browsers.

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a)
Gecko/20030803 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Comment 2

[Chris Gonyea]

Confirmed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6.1

Although the HTML code doesn't validate, I don't see anything during a quick
glance that should cause this behavior.

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

I see this too on LInux 2003080705
I noticed that the <FONT> tags where not being closed and this will cause a big
slow down in the rendering of pages on Mozilla.
After I removed all the <FONT size="1"> rendering time went from 90secs to 30secs.

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

see also bug 60494 and bug 61684.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81993 ***