299917 - Browser freezes when loading a page with lots of big images

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 249469

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ramper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20050120
Build Identifier: 1.0.4 http://www.mozilla-europe.org/es/products/firefox/

When loading a page with lots of big images (not thumbnails) the browser freezes
for seconds as it downloads them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load a page with lots of big images.
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Actual Results:  
Browser freezes for seconds repeatedly as it proceeds with the downloading of
each image in parallel.

Expected Results:  
Browser should never never never freeze while downloading, because it prevents
the user to do another activities like browsing another page in another tab
while the other downloads.

I think it is possible to handle the downloads and refreshing the tabs using
threads that doesn't affect browser behaviour at the user interface level.

For example, Internet Explorer doesn't show this behaviour with the same pages.

I will post an example page as soon as I can.

Cheers.

Comment 1

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249469 ***