216085 - Screen stops updating whenever a background GIF image is used (body, table, etc).

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57607

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Louis P. Santillan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030805 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030805 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

This seems to affect all platforms and also affects Mozilla.  I have Firebird
installed on Linux, MacOSX, and Win2k and all exhibit this behavior.  Based on
testing w/nightly builds downloaded within last 14 days.  I sure this is a dupe
(I would think it is) but I could not find anyone else specifically reporting
this.  I would paste a screen shot but none of the OS's let me either copy the
window or paste it (sure sign of problem, I believe).  Could this be moz code
mucking up display buffers?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Louis, if you're still reading this, could you please give us an example URL
that fails to work properly, and what exactly you see/don't see? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Nick Konstadoglou]

I think he means that image backgrounds (in tables or in body) show up way too
late (some seconds after the page is actually done loading...).

For Example: I open a new tab, it is done loading and when I switch to that tab
the backgrounds still need 3-4 seconds to load (for some weird reason).

This always happened to me with mozilla and firebird since the first time I used
with a variety of builds.

Oh and it's not GIF specific.

In any way, it's not a critical bug.

Reporter, if you're here tell us if we're talking about the same bug.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open http://www.uruobsession.com/forum/index.php (just an example I found..)
in a new tab
2) Switch to another tab and wait until the first tabs finishes loading
3) Switch to the first tab and see that the backgrounds load 4-5 seconds later
(I think it downloads them only when you view the page, so it's more obvious on
slow connections).

If you want to try it again clear your cache..

Comment 3

[Wayne Woods]

Cool, thanks, that makes sense! I can confirm this on Mac, too: 20031104
Firebird/0.7+

I'm almost certain it's another duplicate of a very long running Mozilla bug:
bug 57607

Comment 4

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

another page to reproduce this is http://forums.mozillazine.org/ but the page
must not be cached to see the bug, if it's cached then it should be Shift+Reloaded.

Comment 5

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57607 ***