GNU bug report logs - #23431
Displaying animated GIFs can make Emacs unresponsive

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: bug#23431: 25.0.93; EWW hangs
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 21:23:10 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Yeah, it's an extreme GIF, but Emacs shouldn't become (almost) unusable
>> in the presence of such images...  I mean, you have to kill the eww
>> buffer to get anything done.
>>
>> You can get pretty much the same effect by visiting a page that contains
>> a number of smaller animated images.  
>
> Right, but it's not like this is new in 25 or anything, it's always been
> like that.

Oh, yeah, it's always been bad.  People just notice more now that Emacs
has a web browser.  So I think it's unlikely that whatever we do about
this is code is something that'll go to emacs-25.  Unless there turns
out to be a very simple thinko somewhere.

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