36521 - Screen updates when switching in or out of a framed website needs improvement

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 5569

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Ekle]

The way Mozilla handles redrawing the page when navigating from a non-framed web
site to a framed web site (or I suspect from a framed web site to a framed web
site with a different frame arrangement) needs improvement.

To reproduce:
1. Browse to a website that does not use frames.  The page comes up fine.
2. Browse to a website that does use frames.  For a brief time you see pieces of
the previous page in the areas of the frame where that part was before the frame
appeared.  It also appears that a redraw of the LOCATION BAR appears here briefly.

What I think should be happening here is that, as soon as Mozilla sees that it's
going from a non-framed to a framed page (or from a framed page to a framed page
with a different frame arrangement), it should immediately erase the backgrounds
of all the frames.  Then as the frames load, they can fill in with the
appropriate content.  This would avoid the problem of the 'leftovers' from the
previous page appearing for a time... It looks unprofessional this way.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this is bug 5569

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5569 ***

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sorry for the spam.  New QA Contact for Browser General.  Thanks for your help
Joseph (good luck with the new job) and welcome aboard Doron Rosenberg

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified