642943 - Checkerboarding appears briefly when doing two finger gestures on a ftp site

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 634360

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Panning/Zooming, defect)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Attachment: screenshot

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.1) Gecko20110317 Firefox/4.0b13pre Fennec/4.0
Device: Droid 2 
OS: Android 2.2

1. place device in landscape
2. go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack
3. do a two finger swipe to go to the bottom
4. do a two finger swipe to get to the top

Expected: No checkerboarding
Actual: checkerboarding

Comment 1

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

also occurs on planet.mozilla.org

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This is expected - when you scroll quickly to a region that is not already rendered, we display checkerboard while waiting for it to render (bug 593310).

There are some ideas in bug 634360 that could potentially mitigate this for the scroll-to-top/bottom gestures.