On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:00:00PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: :On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:48:51PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: :> It is definitively a regression. A bad one too. Maybe an interaction :> with the lib that renders the gifs? : :The only thing i see is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46437, :which touchs the Gif backend. See if reverting :http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/68446/trunk/WebCore/platform/image-decoders/gif/GIFImageDecoder.cpp :helps.. but i don't think it's the way to go, as it's supposed to fix a :crasher.
Backing out http://gitorious.org/webkitgtk/stable/commit/d842bb085aceec4fcfc392a7b76c92c258cd5151 fixes the issue. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55830 : :> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: :> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0100, Dawe wrote: :> > > On Mar 04, 2011 11:22, Marco Peereboom wrote: :> > > > It seems that an old webkit bug is back in 1.2.7 where it chokes on :> > > > animated gifs. It eats a lot of cpu and sits there blinking instead of :> > > > animating. :> > > > :> > > > For example: http://www.openbsd.org/art/banners/banner1.gif :> > > > :> > > > Am I the only one seeing that? :> > > > :> > > No, I'm seeing it, too. :> > > Tested on amd64. :> > :> > A quick googling shows :> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=896669 and :> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/721313, but nothing in the :> > upstream bugtracker. :> > If it's a regression from 1.2.6 you should check the commits made since :> > it on http://gitorious.org/webkitgtk, cf the changelog at :> > http://gitorious.org/webkitgtk/stable/blobs/master/WebKit/gtk/NEWS :> > :> > I don't see anything obvious.. :> > :> > Landry :> > :> : -- What this world needs is a good five-dollar plasma weapon.
