222642 - page does not load conpletely all the time

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[pastyboyz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

ESPN web page does not load completely, and sometime stalls. Had to reload a few
times to get the page to laod. This is true for all ESPN pages. This problem was
not present in Mozilla 1.4.1  As a sports fan I visit this (Microsoft IE/Front
Page created) web page often.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load http://msn.espn.go.com/
2.Try a few ESPN Links
3. repea, may have to hit refresh a few times

Actual Results:  
Page would not load all the way.
Page load would stall

Expected Results:  
Loaded the page normally with out stalling

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I see this too in 2003-10-16-05 trunk Linux but not in a -current debug build.
Maybe it was fixed by bug 131775?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031017
nneded 4 retries to load the site, maybe because my slow Celeron333 with 96 MB
RAM doesn´t love THIS flash combined with tons of Javascript trying to connect
to different servers telling them about me.
When the athlete on the flash ad is enlarged, the image leaves the bounds of the
flash, if seen without the surrounding html.
So maybe cropping the growing image takes lot of CPU time, I don´t know.

Here the links for download, ad + menu:

http://adsatt.espn.starwave.com/ad/sponsors/PROCTER_&_GAMBLE/Aug_2003/proc-728x90-0007.swf
http://msn.espn.go.com/swf/fp/masterheader2003.swf

If I copy these links into the location bar, NS4.7 starts, the flash is
downloaded to c:\windows\temp, and Netscape4.8 comes up and displays it as flash
on my Win98 computer, and as text on my Win98SE computer.

When I´ve downloaded a site like this (Webpage, complete) and open the local 
file, all flash is duplicated, shown twice.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The first step to getting anywhere on this bug is to find out what networking
settings the people seeing it use...

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: screenshot 60 kb, not completely loaded

I don´t think it was fixed by bug 131775, as I´m running BuildID 2003101704,
and that bug got fixed	2003-10-16 12:38

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Attachment: screenshot 91 kb flashad without html

if you load
http://adsatt.espn.starwave.com/ad/sponsors/PROCTER_&_GAMBLE/Aug_2003/proc-728x90-0007.swf
directly, like downloading to temp and opening from there, the flash has no
borders. In the website, it must fit into it´s place, and the overlapping parts
are cropped and hidden.
Here you see the overlapping parts, produced by the animation, i.e. repeating.
Could be that this consumes some CPU-time, if the enlargement is done by the
plugin, and the cropping done by mozilla, but I assume the cropping is done by
the plugin via its parameters.

The flash ad isn´t in the HTML, it gets inserted via document.write:

<div id="upperad"><table width="772" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
bgcolor="#cccccc"><tbody><tr><td width="728"><script language="JavaScript"
type="text/javascript">
<!--
var flash = 0;
var ShockMode = 0;
var Flash_File_Path =
"http://adsatt.espn.starwave.com/ad/sponsors/PROCTER_&_GAMBLE/Aug_2003/proc-728x90-0007.swf";

var default_image =
"http://adsatt.espn.starwave.com/ad/sponsors/PROCTER_&_GAMBLE/Aug_2003/proc-728x90-0007.gif";

var default_URL = "http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage";
var URL = escape("http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage");
var default_alttext = "Old Spice Red Zone Deodorant";
var trackclick = "?clicktag=";
var default_track =
"http://transfer.go.com/cgi/atransfer.pl?name=137312&srvc=sz&guid=E7D02092-70A6-44C8-B6F8-0CC9D9C61FC4&context=53156&goto=";

var encoded_track =
"http://transfer.go.com/cgi/atransfer.pl?name%3d137312%26srvc%3dsz%26guid%3dE7D02092-70A6-44C8-B6F8-0CC9D9C61FC4%26context%3d53156%26goto%3d";

var ad_width = "728";
var ad_height = "90";
//-->
</script>

.....

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (flash == 1) {
document.write('<OBJECT 
.. IE code ..
document.write('<\/OBJECT>');
}else{
if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-shockwave-flash']
&& navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-shockwave-flash'].enabledPlugin) {
if(navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description.substring(16,19) >=6) {
ShockMode = 1;
document.write('<EMBED SRC='+Flash_File_Path+trackclick+encoded_track+URL+'');
document.write(' NAME=banner1 swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH='+ad_width +'
HEIGHT='+ad_height +' border="0"');
document.write(' QUALITY="HIGH" MENU=FALSE');
document.write(' TYPE="application\/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">');

document.write('<\/EMBED>');
}}} if (flash != 1 && ShockMode != 1) {
document.write('<A HREF='+default_track+default_URL +'>');
document.write('<img WIDTH='+ad_width+' HEIGHT='+ad_height +' border="0"
src='+default_image +' alt='+ default_alttext +'>');
document.write('<\/a>');
}

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

networking settings: ISDN 64 kbps (single channel)
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Networking Settings gives:
Use HTTP 1.1
Enable Keep Alive
no Pipelining

same for proxy, but I don´t use a proxy.
Will retry with pipelining enabled.

I´m just down on my resources to 9%user, 9% system and 70% GDI, so I better
submit now. ( Celeron 333, 96 MB RAM, Win98 SP1 )
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031017

Comment 7

[Jon Henry]

Out of curiosity, did anyone who is seeing this problem happen to use this
"tweak" for speeding up Mozilla in their user.js or prefs.js file?

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 400);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 200);

At one point I had these preferences enabled and found it caused odd behaviors
like the one reported here, although it could have been a coincidence. Slashdot
was particularly affected, and would often come up only partially loaded like this.

Comment 8

[Jon Henry]

Is this bug still occuring in recent builds? No one has commented in over four
months.

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, 2004-03-05-09 trunk Windows XP.

Make sure you have the preference "Privacy&Security -> Images ->
Image Acceptance Policy: Accept all images".  If you only accept images from the
originating server many of the images will not load.

Please try again with Mozilla 1.7a or newer.

Comment 10

[Jon Henry]

Resolving WFM, there hasn't been a comment from anyone experiencing this bug in
ages and it doesn't appear to exist anymore. If someone can reproduce this in a
recent build, please feel free to reopen.