Closed Bug 56804 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Background paint performance is appalling

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 2000

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: webmaster, Assigned: kmcclusk)

References

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Details

Go to the specified URL in MSIE. Then cf. Mozilla. [Reload a few times.] The paint of the black background is instant in MSIE, but is incremental in Mozilla. Things like this make Mozilla *seem* really slow, and as a result this is a bad bug, because it makes people say 'ugh this is slow', even if the total time to load is less - MSIE's instant paint gives a snappy feel, which Mozilla lacks.
Seems scarily quick to me, but then I have a PIII 450 and 256Mb RAM... Oh, and I have a bone to pick with you about your Mozilla CSS compliance tests being out of date :-) Expect a mail at some point... ;-) Gerv
I think this is something that happens online only (i.e. because some major bug in Windows 2k is really screwing my connection to our T1 and so pages download really slowly). It might be that instead of on <body bgcolor>: paint canvas it doesn't do the paint until it gets more content. Will try confirming with slow vs. fast connections.
http://www.slashdot.org Mozilla win32 trunk build 102708 seems to me to be considerably faster than IE 5.5 and Nav 4.7 on my NT box.
marking worksforme using the 2000110304 trunk build on win2k. Mozilla is rendering the black background faster than ie5.5 on my win2k machine.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
verified works for me on mozilla trunk build 2000-11-20-20 on win2k. Background painting for Mozilla is not slow with respect to IE 5.5 on a 31.2Kbps dial up connection. Marking verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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