287582 - stopping/reloading animated images not isolated across windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269843

(Core Graveyard :: Image: Painting, defect)

Description

[Daniel B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

The stopping of the motion of an animated image, and the reloading and 
restarting of the motion of such an image, is not isolated to the window in 
which the triggering user action (e.g., ESC key, loading a page, etc.) was 
given.  It seems to apply to all uses of that particular image in all windows 
in the given browser instance.

The worst symptom is that if you stop an image in one page and then, in another
window, open a page with that same image, the image in the original window 
starts moving again!

Similarly, stopping an image in one page will also stop occurrences of the
same image in other windows.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Load a page with an animated image.
2.  Stop the movement (press ESC).
3.  In another window, load a page with the same moving image.
4.  Note how the image in the first window starts moving again.
5.  Pick either window, and stop the motion of the image in that window.
6.  Note how the movement also stops in the other window.
Actual Results:  
See steps 4 and 6.

Expected Results:  
For steps 4 and 6, other windows (or tabs) should not be affected.

Specifically, for step 4, already-stopped displays of the image in other 
windows should not being moving again.  For step 6, moving in other windows
should not be stopped.

Comment 1

[Daniel B.]

At least as of 2005-03-24, web pages at and near http://www.wgs84.com/
demonstrate the problem.

(Go to http://www.wgs84.com/; stop the hyperactive spinning-globe image;
open, say, the "WGS 84" link in a new window; and notice that the globe
image in the orignal window resumes moving.)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269843 ***