240181 - Sending messages progress window is "blinking" between the progressbar and the dashed progress bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244649

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Patrick Quaedackers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Sending messages progress window is "blinking" between the progressbar and the
dashed progress bar when I send and email.

(see attachements)
I amnaged to capture both things on the progressbar

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose an email
2. add an attachment to slow down the sendtime
3. watch the progresswindow

Actual Results:  
A progresssbar runs from 0% to 100% and close the window

Expected Results:  
A progresssbar runs from 0% to 100% and switching every % or so by the dashed
progressbar, and at the end closes the window

Screenshots in attachments.
Attachemnt 2 is the "dashed progressbar" as mentioned before.

Comment 1

[Patrick Quaedackers]

Attachment: Progress window with % send

Comment 2

[Patrick Quaedackers]

Attachment: Dashed progress window

Comment 3

[Joshua Nixon]

confirm flashing progress bar, most notable when sending large attachments.
rapid flickering between incremental progress meter and "barber pole" is likely
to cause even greater issues with epileptic users as reported in <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133513">bug 133513</a>.

i am not epileptic but this rapid flickering is fairly obnoxious. note that both
status bar in lower right corner of mail window and mail send progress popup
display this flickering.

Comment 4

[Patrick Quaedackers]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i am not epileptic but this rapid flickering is fairly obnoxious. note that both
> status bar in lower right corner of mail window and mail send progress popup
> display this flickering.

Indeed. It's also present in the lower right corner.
I have Mozilla 1.8a (build ID 2004052009) at the moment, and it seems this bug
is fixed.

There may be an other reason for this bug tho...
I'm using a different virusscanner at the moment. My virusscanner does not serve
as a proxy anymore...

Some questions:
Do YOU have a virusscanner installed that serves as a proxy?
What version of Mozilla do you use?
What OS do you use?

Greets
Patrick

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is a dup of a confirmed bug.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

see bug #244649

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244649 ***