280917 - Scrolling is slow in frames with heavy loaded page - page scrolls smoothly out of frames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 579260

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Marc Boucher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041220 K-Meleon/0.9

I've noticed this problem in recent versions of gecko (Firefox, Mozilla, ...).
I didn't have it with older versions, in my case they were almost a year ago
(eg: K-Meleon 0.8.2).

When a page is loaded in a frame, the refresh while scrolling is much more jerky
than when the page is loaded in its own window. It's more noticeable when the
page contains many elements to redraw (table in my example).
Try to reproduce this on a slow computer. Mine is a Celeron 450Mhz ...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://users.skynet.be/alternity/Mozilla/moz04/frame.html
2. scroll the main frame. See how the refresh is jerky
3. open the page: http://users.skynet.be/alternity/Mozilla/moz04/page.html
directly in a window. Scroll. See how it's smooth.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

wfm.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050206 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Matt Voysey]

I can confirm this problem is still present in the current Firefox releases (I am using 2.0.0.11 on Windows and Linux). The issue is only noticeable though if the "use smooth scrolling" option is enabled.

The issue is particularly commonly encountered for sites that are accessed through a domain name redirect that uses html frames to embed the redirected page. For example, visit http://www.users.callnetuk.com/~shanks/GPSMap.html and test the scrolling speed using pageup/pagedown keys.
Now visit the same page via a frame redirect at http://www.craporola.com/GPSMap.html and compare the speed. For pages with a lot of embedded graphics this gets a lot worse than the "no frames" case. And it "helps" to have a relatively old and slow PC.

mv.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this problem?  ... Using current version of FF (3.0.4), or 3.1 beta - beta 1 at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.1b1/releasenotes/ ... or beta 2 available soon 

If you no longer see the problem please close the bug.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

@Reporter, we have not heard back from you in a while, so I am closing this bug as INCOMPLETE. You can reopen this bug if more information becomes available. Some helpful information you can provide us is found at http://new.quality.mozilla.org/bug-writing-guidelines.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I do still see a performance difference using the steps in comment 0.

It would be good to determine if that performance difference is specific to some characteristics of the page:  for example, whether or not the iframe has a background-color, whether or not the HTML in the iframe has a background-color, whether the iframe is positioned, etc.

Comment 7

[Daniel.S]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I do still see a performance difference using the steps in comment 0.
-> New

I personally can't reproduce this, but that's most likely due to my modern hardware.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Testcase?

Comment 9

[Daniel.S]

Attachment: testcase's menu

Comment 10

[Daniel.S]

Attachment: testcase #1 (without frame)

Comment 11

[Daniel.S]

Attachment: testcase #2 (inside frame)

(In reply to comment #8)
> Testcase?

Here you go. (with a d'oh from me..)

David, can you see a perf difference in the attached files as well? If yes we can at least eleminate CSS as possible cause..

Comment 12

[Carlos Alén Silva]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) 
Gecko/20100503 Firefox/3.6.4

Both the URL in comment #0 and the test case work fine here with smooth scrolling on Fx 3.6.4.

Comment 13

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Duping this to bug 579260 as the characteristics appear to be the same and it's been inactive for a long time. Please re-open if you have evidence to the contrary.