78681 - hitting Escape while page is paint-suppressed should toss out partially loaded page

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Spun off of bug 76495, "We tear down the world before having anything to 
replace it with" (aka "Supress painting for first 1.2 seconds of page load to 
improve page load time").

If I hit Escape while a page is loading but paint-suppressed, the new (often 
incomplete) page replaces the current page.

To reproduce:
1. Click a link to http://www.plastic.com/index.pl?switch=1.
2. As soon as the Plastic page begins to load, press Escape.  (It can be tricky 
to judge when the page has begun to load because the fix from bug 76495, which 
makes the new page not paint over the old page for ~1.2 seconds unless the page 
finishes loading before that time is up.)

Result: Plastic page replaces this page.
Expected: This page should stick around, since it's what I saw before hitting 
the Escape key.  It shouldn't matter that Mozilla has started to lay out the 
new page.

Comment 1

[John Levon]

*** Bug 138625 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Manoj]

Any progress on this bug. It seems to bite me everytime I try to visit a link
that has been slashdotted. I think the bug has been resolved to a great extent
because I am using Ctrl + Tab in 20020915 on Windows XP to switch between tabs
while a page is loading and it seems to work okay. 

Comment 3

[timeless]

*** Bug 119744 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 191915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 6 duplicates.
:dholbert, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 10

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.