GNU bug report logs - #40685
28.0.50; eww browser chews up 100% cpu when displaying looping gif animations

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francis Meetze <francis <at> bridgesense.com>

Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 41802

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Francis Meetze <francis <at> bridgesense.com>
Cc: 40685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40685: 28.0.50; eww browser chews up 100% cpu when displaying looping gif animations
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:39:53 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>  Hm...  it doesn't seem to hard two write something like that, I
> think?  I'll give it a go.

I've now done so in Emacs 28, and it seems to work in my test cases with
huge GIFs.  It'll probably take some tweaking to find a limit that
doesn't stop legitimate animations, though.

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