277282 - Rendering problem, very repeatable, and causes 99% CPU usage

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Load of page instantly shows text and image constantly trying to occupy the same
area on the html page causing the area to flicker constantly, and causes CPU
usage to exceed 90%.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://www.dailybuzz.tv/ problem can be seen instantly
2. Problem does not show with I.E. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Instantly saw flicker of text and image trying to occupy the same space.

Expected Results:  
Load page in another popular browser and text/image layout will be correct.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050106
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

it's a slow server, I don't see any flickering at all

Comment 2

[David]

The issue is with the center panel, and it might be related to "flash" what's
happening if the "picture image" and the "flash text box" next to the image are
trying to format correctly based on a table layout that seems to be unsupported,
or something along those lines ? I'm not sure how I could do a "screen shot" or
video tape it, however, I'd be willing to show it to you some how if you'd be
interested. 

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Let's just see if someone else sees it.

Comment 4

[David]

Before I submitted the bug report I considered your "bad" bug report vs. "good"
bug report policy, and further consider not bothering to take the time to send
in the "bug report"...I'm not a "www.dailybuzz.tv" regular by any means. but
after some consideration, I figured hey - tell 'em what's up.. So that being
said, you might consider adding "Let's just see if someone else see it" to the
list of "BAD" bug report support responses. :)

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Before I submitted the bug report I considered your "bad" bug report vs. "good"
> bug report policy, and further consider not bothering to take the time to send
> in the "bug report"...I'm not a "www.dailybuzz.tv" regular by any means. but
> after some consideration, I figured hey - tell 'em what's up.. So that being
> said, you might consider adding "Let's just see if someone else see it" to the
> list of "BAD" bug report support responses. :)
No, I just can't reproduce it, which doesn't say it's a real bug at all.
There are numerous people going through the list of bugs each day and I'm sure
other will try it out and see if they can reproduce the problem you experience.
Be patient ;-)

Comment 6

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050106
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

I am not sure that I know which part of the page is the 'center panel'.
I couldn't validate the page.

Is there a reduced test case?

Comment 7

[Dave Taylor]

Attachment: Short AVI file (DivX 5 codec) showing the problem

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

I think I am seeing the same problem as the reporter - hopefully this AVI file
should clarify the problem. The flickering is actually much faster than shown -
I think the screen recorder program is dropping frames ...

N.b. the section to the right that contains the text is an iframe.

Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Ok, I looked at the Avi and screenshots,
this problem lives in the official FF1.0 milstone, but not on trunk.

You can either download a newer build (trunk) or you have to live with it untill
the release of Firefox 1.1 which is set for March 2005.
(I advise you to wait till 1.1)

I know this bug is a dupe, but I remember it had a technical description which I
am not able to find.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050927
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092706

WFM

this is fixed in 1.5