Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:53 -0700, ian_bruce at fastmail.net wrote:
> > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the
> > mouse is moved on top of the blank area of the page indeed.
> 
> It turns out that this bug was already reported OVER A YEAR AGO:
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c3

That's not a bug report, that's a comment in the middle of an unrelated
bug report. If you feel like filing a real bug report about this, please
do =).

> A fix was proposed over six months ago:
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c5

And there was no agreement that fix should be made, as you can see in
the comments that come after that.

> I don't understand why this fix hasn't been applied upstream. Even if
> you don't think this behaviour is a security problem, it's a big waste
> of CPU and network resources to issue a completely useless external DNS
> query for every mouse movement event -- that is, for every few pixels
> that the pointer moves. That is a ridiculously stupid thing to do.

I agree, a fix needs to be done indeed.

> Gustavo, I draw your attention particularly to the following comments:
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c14
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23846#c19

Attention drawn. What exactly do you want me to see in those comments?

See you,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian
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