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Bug 217951 - HTML EMails with Animated GIFs consume Time if not displayed
HTML EMails with Animated GIFs consume Time if not displayed
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Rendering
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
: Future
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
: 228517 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 332813
 
 
Reported: 2001-12-27 21:39 UTC by Johann Glaser
Modified: 2014-12-02 01:07 UTC
See Also:
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Description Johann Glaser 2001-12-27 21:40:00 UTC 
Package: Evolution
Priority: Critical
Version: 1.0
Synopsis: HTML EMails with Animated GIFs consume Time if not displayed
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
An EMail which contains a HTML part with animated GIFs inside consumes
CPU when you look at it in the mail window (inside the Evolution
window).

Now switch to another EMail folder. The HTML page with the GIFs is not
displayed any more. _But_ it consumes CPU time.

Switch back to the folder where the HTML mail with animated GIFs is in.
Select another EMail without animated GIFs. CPU usage goes down now.
Switch to another folder. CPU uses keeps low.

I guess that large EMails (e.g. with lot of HTML code inside) also
consume a huge amount of _memory_ if they are selected despite it's
folder is not selected.
Comment 1 Radek Doulik 2002-08-26 16:31:25 UTC 
*** bug 228517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-09-27 22:03:03 UTC 
adding perf keyword; retargetting from 1.2 to "future".
Comment 3 André Klapper 2005-10-26 13:43:57 UTC 
adding memory keyword
Comment 4 André Klapper 2014-12-02 01:07:53 UTC 
Since version 3.6, Evolution uses WebKit instead of GtkHtml for displaying messages. (And for completeness, Evolution 3.14 is planned to use WebKit also for composing and editing messages so GtkHtml will not receive any fixes anymore.)

Hence I am closing this GtkHtml rendering bug report.
We are sorry that your request was not handled in time when it was reported but unfortunately manpower is very limited (and does not allow testing every single reported issue separately again either).

Please feel free to reopen this report (and move it to the "Evolution" product and the "Mail" component) if the problem described in this bug report still happens in a recent supported Evolution version which uses WebKit (the current stable Evolution version is 3.12).