259497 - mouseover eat a lot of cpu

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Cedric De Wilde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Galeon/1.3.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Galeon/1.3.17

When you pass the mouse over a link, gecko consumme a lot of cpu. 
Under windows 2000, it take up to 20% of my cpu(athlon 2800+). Under linux, it
take up to 50%(up to 100% under some circumstances: using galeon with one other
tab open).
Other browser(such as konqueror(linux), opera(linux), internet
explorer(win2000))  only use up to 5% of cpu.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the test-case(it's just a small list with some <a href=... )
2. pass the mouse aver the links
3. look at the cpu usage 

Actual Results:  
eat my cpu

Expected Results:  
don't eat my cpu

Comment 1

[Cedric De Wilde]

Attachment: test-case

really simple xhtml page with a list of link

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

WFM with Mozilla 1.8a5 2004102405 on WinNT4. No abnormal CPU usage.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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