370874 - Very many images slows down whole system

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Markus Zeller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

When loading very very many images on a single website, not only the browser slows down - it's even the whole system.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Call website
2. Login
3. Just wait the images loaded.
Actual Results:  
The HTML code is already loaded completely, so it sais the site itself is really loaded. But there are so many images which are loaded afterwards.


Expected Results:  
The IE7 shows the number of images to be loaded (as x images to go). Would be nice to have the same feature in FF.

It should be possible to stop loading the images. I just can kill the FF by the process explorer.

I experienced the same performance problems on SuSE 10.2 x64, too.

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

testing
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070626  ID:2007062604
and
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 ID:2007051502

the test url WFM without any problems.

at OP: do you still experience the problems ?
if yes, try to do some procedures described here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_CPU_usage

the other isuue you're mentioning (The HTML code is already loaded completely, so it sais the site itself is really loaded. But there are so many images which are loaded afterwards.) maybe bug 253851 .

Comment 2

[Markus Zeller]

You are right. This seems to be fixed since one of the last two or thee updates!

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

ok, but changed to WORKSFORME since no patch/checkin was committed