368673 - No I beam text location marker or arrow scrolling, and 2) Endless connecting and downloading multiple sites

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Nick Polimeni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414

1) The I Beam maybe related to the endless downloading... I can not place the cursor on a tex line, and see the I beam/bar on the html page (I can see it here, where I'm writing), and I can no longer use the up-down arrows to move up and donw the page... I'm forced to use the mouse to drag the scroll bar...

2) 'ftchinese' is a Chinese web site, but I click on the little brown box that looks like a bell, next to certain articles to get English versions. For convenience to keep track of what I'm doing, I click each link to open in new tab. By the time I initiate 10 or more tabs, the browsers seems to slow down to a crawl, and each page continues to try to load, although most of the page are already completely loaded.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to either link above.
2. For the Chinese: where you see little brown box with bell-like character (can't copy it here), right-click and load in new tab. For English, just get several links to open in new tabs.
3. Wait until frustration sets in...
Actual Results:  
Entire browser and entire computer starts to slow down visibly, to where I now have to wait from a few seconds to as much as a minute for a function to respond. For example, if I click on the task bar to bring another program to the front, it may take as much as minute, sometimes more, for the window to refresh and be ready for input.

Expected Results:  
Shouldn't slow up so much. What I would like is a feature that I haven't seen on any browser, and that is, limit the number the amount of memory used to manage web page loading, or the amount of bandwith allowed for web site downloads, or also provide a setting where user can over-ride any automatic reloads from the browser, as well, as stop flash from repeating and repeating, and to be able to stop other automatic repeated actions... in early version of Mozilla/Netscape, once could click "Stop" and all motion on the screen stopped... I would like that feature back...

I would also like back being able to see the I beam on text, and be able to use the up-down arrows for scrolling. 

What I think is happening, is something many web developers are doing to have web sites refreshed at a given rate, which means the page will load again and again. For example, this one: http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx?refresh=true

Reuters has an automatic 300 seconds update command that executes... of course, every 300 seconds. But the entire site is so large that before it is totally loaded, the 300 seconds expire, and the page begins to reload, removing from the screen whatever I'm reading, and reloading it... so I wait for a re-load to continue from where I left off....

Comment 1

[Cédric "chewey" Menge]

WFM - interaction with a web page is possible as soon as any part of it starts to be displayed.

Very big web pages in conjunction with too short refresh intervals and very slow transfer speeds can indeed prevent a page from loading completely, if this reload is triggered via JS - but this is more of an inherent issue to the web itself, and can be prevented by switching off JS.