On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Steve Lindemann <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Boles wrote: > > I tried your site and loaded "Soldier, militants killed in Gaza" and then > > loaded the forty cartoons that I mentioned. I scrolled up and down the > > whole time that the forty sites were loading without any problems. I > > picked a URL from the page and reloaded all tabs. That would be forty-two > > pages. Still no problem scrolling up and down on the original page. > > > > I am not doubting what you say ;-) but I don't see this problem here. > > > > Please don't doubt him... he isn't the only one seeing a problem. I've > had the same issue across multiple windows and linux platforms. If > something hangs during the page load, nothing else in Firefox will work > until that page finally finishes or starts loading more or less > normally. While the page is loading the problem is considerably less > noticable, but if one page load hangs up in the least little way, then > the whole application hangs... Firefox is still my browser of choice, > but that little quirk is more than a bit annoying. > -- Agreed, I've had a problem similar to this for as long as I can remember Mozilla tabbing by default. I log into a private page to check some statistics (stats/links/logs/etc.). I usually tab-click it to a background tab. It has quite a bit of data (but no animations/flash/JS), however while that tab loads in the background, Firefox is more or less frozen. It seems better in Windows but its pretty bad in Gnome. Although I haven't tested Opera in a while, Opera in Linux seems to do a much better job at loading those background tabs while keeping the browser responsive. It has improved, but it seems to me that has more to do with having a much better computer and internet connection now. Just my observations. -Mauriat
