291983 - animations freeze, thaw when mouse button pressed and held, browser becomes irresponsive (must quit)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Animations on this page and others do not run. I believe they are animated gifs,
however I cannot verify this. Animations on some sites like the ads on
http://www.dictionary.com run now (they didn't in previous releases of Firefox),
but sometimes run slowly (I notice this particularly with very active ads like
the one for 'Smileys'). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply navigate to the page and let it fully load
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The animations freeze and the browser becomes irresponsive (a forced quit
becomes necessary).

Expected Results:  
Run the animations.

Comment 1

[u63580]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050422
Firefox/1.0+.  The page features a Flash animation - is your Flash install up to
date and working properly?

Comment 2

[crmcneill]

Find same bug on several pages with animated ads.  Suspect they're Flash, but
with the freeze, can't confirm with Control-click to display Flash player options. 

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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