491703 - Ugly flashes using Gmail

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090506 Minefield/3.6a1pre

About 40% of the time, loading or leaving a Gmail message makes a large part of the content area flash green or blue.

This started recently, so maybe it's a regression from ireflow?  Or even an expected result of ireflow?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This could happen due to ireflow if we're interrupting during the message load, yes...  I'm not sure what to do with this yet; the whole idea is to allow painting intermediate layout states, and they might look nothing like the "correct" layout.  I'll try to play with this tomorrow.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, I can reproduce.  I have no idea why it happens yet, though.

Comment 3

[Robert Sayre]

news.ycombinator.com seems to show this too. load it and refresh. you get a white flash.

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I'm seeing flashes roughly every minute or so using GMail, perhaps a reflow from the new message check. Quite distracting when you have GMail open but are working in another app. (Mac 10.4 & 10.6, mozilla-central & mozilla-1.9.2)

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

I see it on Windows as well.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I haven't been able to reproduce with recent nightlies.  Is anyone seeing this in a 2009-10-01 build?  And if so, is the problem still there in a 2009-10-03 build?

Comment 7

[-fullmetaljacket-]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I haven't been able to reproduce with recent nightlies.  Is anyone seeing this
> in a 2009-10-01 build?  And if so, is the problem still there in a 2009-10-03
> build?

haven't had a chance to observe using those build, but with 2009-10-04, no flashes on gmail.

Comment 8

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I'm seeing less frequent flashes with
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091004 Minefield/3.7a1pre
where I'm looking for black drawn in the message area while Gmail is sitting idle. I can also induce a flash by repeatedly using Gmail's Refresh link.

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I can have a look at this one...

Comment 10

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

I can't make this happen with

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091025 Minefield/3.7a1pre

even by using the refresh link.  Nick: can you repro on a branch build at this point?

Comment 11

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Not getting flashes with
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2pre) Gecko/20091101 Namoroka/3.6b2pre

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.7a1pre

Comment 13

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

How about on the 1.9.2 branch?

Comment 14

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Can anyone else confirm comment #11 ?

Comment 15

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM using an opt 1.9.2 branch build, built from 
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e60a8addf1c0

Comment 16

[Dirkjan Ochtman (:djc)]

I'm still seeing this with 3.6b1, both Win and Mac, I think (XP, Snow Leopard).

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

djc, why does b1 matter, exactly?  We've had at least one gmail-related flashing fix that landed on 1.9.2 branch after b1....

Comment 18

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Don't reopen unless the bug is seen on trunk, please -- if you see it with a current 1.9.2 nightly, please indicate that specifically (with build ID) so that we can evaluate final-fixed.  Thanks!