270723 - Slow pages with many images causes other browser windows to freeze until loaded

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Ellis Rahhal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The sample page included is a site in china with a lot of images.  It loads
slowly, and appears to grab all the available sockets, so when I load another
instance of Firefox, nothing will load until the slow site is finished loading.
 This happens on any page with a lot of relatively large images that takes a
long time to download.  This is not a problem in IE or in previous versions of
Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two browser windows

2. Clear the cache

3. Load

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/18/content_2233748.htm 

in the first window

4. While it is loading, load another page (e.g. google) in the other browser.
Actual Results:  
Notice that the second page doesn't begin to load until there are 3-4 images
left to load on the first page, which indicates to me that the socket pool is
used up by the first browser instance

Expected Results:  
The second browser should load the page while the first one is loading.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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