240066 - Credits dialog eats CPU while scrolling the names

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 233518

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040408 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040408 Firefox/0.8.0+

When you open the credits dialog, as soon as the scrolling of the names start,
CPU load is 100%.
It goes back to normal once the dialog is closed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open the credits dialog
2.wait for the scrolling to begin
3.watch your CPU getting fried ;-)



Expected Results:  
use reasonable CPU time

Comment 1

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

Attachment: Screenshot illustrating the effect

attached a screenshot showing the dialog and a CPU monitor. (Scrolling of the
text just started)

Comment 2

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

fixed typo in summary...

Comment 3

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

just noticed:
same problem already using "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O;
en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8" (official Fx0.8 final)

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233518 ***