300893 - performance disadvantage compared with internet explorer by rendering large select boxes with about 8000 entrys

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jens Willhardt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If you got one or more select boxes with a huge amount of entrys (about 8000) on
a page, firefox needs much longer (about 2sec) then internet-explorer to finish
rendering the page. This is not a critical bug but a performance issue, i think.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a page with one or more select boxes with about 8000 entrys at each
2.view the page with firefox
3.view the page with internet-explorer

Actual Results:  
You will notice a disadvantage in performance compared to internet-explorer

Expected Results:  
Just render it as fast as internet-explorer... if possible

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Are you able to provide a testcase?
Also, try updating to 1.0.5, as 1.0.4 is now three months obsolete.
Also, if the problem continues, try a nightly build available at
http://www.mozilla.org/developer

Comment 2

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

No response from reporter in over 18 months, closing INCOMPLETE.