769815 - Dynamic page elements do not repaint

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
Build ID: 20120614114901

Steps to reproduce:

1. I logged into us.playstation.com/myfriends/
2. i clicked on the "Online Status" column to sort the list


Actual results:

The list does seem to sort

Work around
In order to make the list sort you have to pan/scroll the page to force a repaint

Additional Note
This issue also occurs on the mobile google reader page (www.google.com/reader). When clicking the menu arrow on the far right to get a pull-down menu, the menu does not appear unless you scroll down, then up to force a repaint.


Expected results:

The list should have sorted in terms of online status

Comment 1

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

Also wanted to say that the device I have the issues on is the Droid Bionic.
Another site that shows this prevalent issue is twitter mobile.

Comment 2

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

I'm unable to reproduce this on a Galaxy Nexus using Firefox 14. (On google reader anyway, I don't have a playstation account so I can't log in to the playstation site).

Comment 3

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

ok i have more information. it seems that the playstation site does something to firefox. maybe it usess up memory or something.
on a fresh install the google reader menu works well but after visiting psn the sorting does not work there and on returning to reader that fails also.

Comment 4

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

Did you try twitter? It also gums up the dynamic switch from tweets to tweet details after a couple iterations.

Comment 5

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

I am not the only one having this issue. I just now found a review on Google Play with a similar situation:

Still doesn't work well with DuckDuckGo as the search bar should stay at the top and instead jitters due to Firefox arbitrarily re-rendering the page. Wikipedia mobile site has the same problem when expanding/collasping a section. Can also happen when clicking links, nothing appears to happen, but actually it does load and just needs to render. Rendering can be triggered by scrolling, so it's not a show-stopper.

Comment 6

[Xiao Meng Wei :xwei]

With fennec release version I can't seem to find the issue regarding to either wikipedia mobile page or google reader. Expanding/collapsing seemed ok without any rendering issue. However, I did not test playstation site since my friend list only contains one user which is impossible for me to see any listing changes.

Comment 7

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

I think the duckduckgo.com is a different issue with the rerendering with the Virtual Keyboard from what you are describbing initially.

I didn't see any issues with twitter.

The sony, I didn't have any more users than 0... xwei please try adding [e-mail] and see if you see the issue?

Comment 8

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

We should probably separate the duckduckgo.com as a different bug.

Comment 9

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

Split off to bug 790818

Comment 10

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

This issues was happening to me on Android Gingerbread on my Moto Droid Bionic (also my wife's Bionic).
After updating to a leaked ICS for the Bionic, the issue does not occur anymore for me.
Based on this I am wondering if you guys are testing using ICS or an earlier Android version.

Comment 11

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

When I tried it always on honeycomb or ICS, never on Gingerbread. Does your wife's Bionic still have Gingerbread on it? If so, can you check to see if a recent nightly build on her device still exhibits the problem? That should help determine if it's a android-platform-specific issue or not.

Comment 12

[Sheldon Himmelsbach]

Kartikaya here are my findings on the lastest Nightly on Gingerbread on Droid Bionic.

There is definitely an improvement, but after a while the behaviour of not repainting the screen on dynamic actions returns.

Sometimes doing a refresh will temporarily fix the issue, but then it eventually returns.

Tested with these sites:
us.playstation.com/myfriends - tapping status to sort asc/desc
mobile.twitter.com - tapping tweets to get detail view
en.m.wikipedia.org - in an article tapped sections to expand/contract
www.google.com/reader - tapped double-carret menu on top-right to expand menu

Comment 13

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Is this a regression?

Comment 14

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