Frank Burleigh wrote:
> Hello. On numerous pages (e.g. www.novell.com) .7, as well as a nightly
> I'd gotten just days before .7's release, I find that page loading never
> seems to finish. Oh, the page is completely rendered, but the browser
> seems to think the page isn't "all here yet" as the throbber ("M"), the
> page load thermometer and the mouse cursor all indicate a busy browser.
> You have to stop page loading to click any links on the page.
>
> .7 on win2k.
>
> I've searched on bugzilla and got 'zarro boogs' ;-) but am not sure how
> you'd describe this there.
Maybe it has to do with one of these bugs?
* progressmeter and throbber do not stop spinning after submitting a
bugzilla comment
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39310
* javascript: url starts throbber and stop button and progress bar
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56932
* throbber never stops running; pegs CPU!!
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59610
* in Netscape internal AKA, when enter alias name and click Administer,
barber pole spins forever
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63366
These are 4 of 6 bugs found by searching for "throbber,spin
stop,run,forever,never,not" at
http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~afranke/mozilla/quicksearch.html
Feel free to check out that tool. It supports conjunctive normal forms: a
comma means OR, a space means AND. If you think this tool has usability
problems or you want to suggest improvements, please comment in bug 61561.
Andreas