251355 - all text on page flashing/blinking constantly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Dan Brennan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

In the page at http://www.pyogenes.com/v2.html/, a large chunk of javascript is
being used (http://www.pyogenes.com/timer3.js).  The script runs a series of
timers on the page, which are constantly running and changing content.  Due to
this (at least I think its due to the JS), the screen and text flash/blink about
every 1-2 seconds.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.pyogenes.com/v2.html/
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Blinking/Flashing text and screen 

Expected Results:  
not blinked/flashed and run the timers smoothly (you can see the way it is
"supposed" to look by opening in IE6).

Comment 1

[Alby]

WFM: Using 0.9.2 - nothing blinks.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

I can reproduce this. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040712 Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

I can also reproduce this in - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040713

It is a Mozilla bug of some sort. One odd thing is that you can stop the seizure
inducing blinking by moving the mouse around on the page.

Comment 4

[Andy Schiro]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM: Using 0.9.2 - nothing blinks.
Go to http://boatlifts4less.com/ all text blinks on 0.9.2 also
[e-mail]

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > WFM: Using 0.9.2 - nothing blinks.
> Go to http://boatlifts4less.com/ all text blinks on 0.9.2 also
> [e-mail]
> 

This (http://boatlifts4less.com/) page does not have anything to do with this
bug. The page specifies "text-decoration: blink" for the main body of the web
page. Mozilla renders this page as designed by the author. This bug involves a
flashing because of quick refreshing of a dynamic JavaScript.

Comment 6

[Daniel P. Brennan]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > WFM: Using 0.9.2 - nothing blinks.
> > Go to http://boatlifts4less.com/ all text blinks on 0.9.2 also
> > [e-mail]
> > 
> This (http://boatlifts4less.com/) page does not have anything to do with this
> bug. The page specifies "text-decoration: blink" for the main body of the web
> page. Mozilla renders this page as designed by the author. This bug involves a
> flashing because of quick refreshing of a dynamic JavaScript.


I understand that it is a bug involving the dynamic Javascript (that was my 
original thought in my bug report).  What do we do about it?  Is there going to 
be a fix for this put into Firefox 0.8?  

Comment 7

[Daniel P. Brennan]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM: Using 0.9.2 - nothing blinks.

I have just installed 0.9.2 and if you wait about 5 seconds, it does start to blink.

Comment 8

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably related to bug 170702.

Comment 9

[Markus Hübner]

Confirming - Using mozilla trunk build 2004101904 on win-xp pro sp1

Comment 10

[Ronald Tilby]

URL WFM using Mozilla 2004121004 Nightly on Windows XP.

Comment 11

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can see the bug, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 Firefox/1.0+
But I can't see it anymore, using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050120 Firefox/1.0+

I bet this was fixed by the fix for bug 244366. I'm marking this fixed (and the
related bug) in a day or so, unless someone still sees the bug.

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Matic, want some advice?  Leaving layout bugs assigned to Blake is a good way to
make sure they never get looked at... ;)

Comment 13

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

No objections apparently, so marking fixed because of the fix for bug 244366.

Comment 14

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** Bug 251867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***