It is definitively a regression. A bad one too. Maybe an interaction with the lib that renders the gifs?
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 >
