Does FF stumble on .PNGs?

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Mav451

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Yes, I know it is blasphemous to go to Tom's, but I just went there. So I'm looking at this page:

http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-13.html

And when I try to (mouse)-scroll, my CPU usage spikes to 100% (accompanied by horrible lag). I open IE, same page, it hardly peaks over 52%, averaging closer to 38-40%. It is then that I went to right-click to see if ads were the problem, but I accidentally clicked on the images themselves. PNGs? I've seen FF handle .JPG/.BMP's just fine, but perhaps does FF not like .PNGs?

What gives?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M2)
 
Hrm...I just tried the same site on the Intel comps in the computer lab. They have 2.8Prescotts. I used the SSE2 builds from Moox. No problems. Smooth.

I'm wondering if its either Moox's build itself (the SSE builds), or is it that I'm using AMD? I need to confirm this by using a stock Mozilla build of Firefox. I guess I'll do that soon.
 
Firefox Version 1.0 on an MSI K7T w\ Athlon 1.2GHz

smooth as a baby's bottom :p
no issues at all or spike in cycles
 
Damn. Fresh install to Firefox 1.0 release, still spikes like crazy. Ah well.
 
Ok this is getting weirder.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/foxconn-nf4uk8aa/index.x?pg=5

Now there's no way FF is struggling with the .gifs. And I've already adblocked the flash ads away. Why would FF struggle with random pages like this? On the whole, its been either this or that Tom's page that cause huge CPU spikes.

*update*
I "block images from techreport". Reload the page. Its smooth. It can't be some strange table/html code that's causing it. Apparently the image files are causing the lag. WTF?! :eek:
 
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