Both 39310 and 59610 are reasonable candidates. I'm new to bugzilla,
reporting, etc., so I don't know whether I should 'add' something to
either bug or not. It's funny that my attempts to find this bug were
thwarted *by* it: bugzilla often never finishes loading for me, so its
usefulness is rather limited.
None of the bug reports make the point that the mouse cursor is the
busy/click type, which means from a user point of view you've got to
stop page loading (even though page loading is done) before you can
interact with anything on the page.
It seems they've reopened 39310 so perhaps this is still being thought
about. It is interesting that this bug was made last May, yet from the
text of the bugs it seems they still don't have an analysis of it.
Thanks for your help--good to see I'm not the only one.
Andreas Franke wrote:
> Frank Burleigh wrote:
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>> Hello. On numerous pages (e.g. www.novell.com) .7, as well as a nightly
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>> I'd gotten just days before .7's release, I find that page loading never
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>> seems to finish. Oh, the page is completely rendered, but the browser
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>> seems to think the page isn't "all here yet" as the throbber ("M"), the
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>> page load thermometer and the mouse cursor all indicate a busy browser.
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>> You have to stop page loading to click any links on the page.
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>> .7 on win2k.
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>> I've searched on bugzilla and got 'zarro boogs' ;-) but am not sure how
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> Maybe it has to do with one of these bugs?
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> * progressmeter and throbber do not stop spinning after submitting a
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> bugzilla comment
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> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39310
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> * javascript: url starts throbber and stop button and progress bar
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> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56932
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> * throbber never stops running; pegs CPU!!
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> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59610
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> * in Netscape internal AKA, when enter alias name and click Administer,
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> barber pole spins forever
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> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63366
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> These are 4 of 6 bugs found by searching for "throbber,spin
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> stop,run,forever,never,not" at
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> http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~afranke/mozilla/quicksearch.html
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> Feel free to check out that tool. It supports conjunctive normal forms: a
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> comma means OR, a space means AND. If you think this tool has usability
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> problems or you want to suggest improvements, please comment in bug 61561.
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> Andreas
