Bug 142598 – REGRESSION(r179340): Caused images to stay alive forever when navigating away from the page before they finish loading. (Requested by kling on #webkit).

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: New Bugs

[WebKit Commit Bot]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/179340 broke the build:
Caused images to stay alive forever when navigating away from the page before they finish loading. (Requested by kling on #webkit).

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[WebKit Commit Bot]

Created attachment 248458 [details]
ROLLOUT of r179340

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[Andreas Kling]

This caused various problems with ImageLoaders getting stuck with m_hasPendingLoadEvent=true, which prevents the garbage collector from deleting these elements.

I'm rolling the change out since it wasn't clearly fixing a bug in the first place.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 248458 [details]
ROLLOUT of r179340

Clearing flags on attachment: 248458

Committed r181412: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/181412>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This rollout broke a test.

https://webkit-test-results.appspot.com/dashboards/flakiness_dashboard.html#showAllRuns=true&tests=compositing%2Fbackgrounds%2Fbackground-image-with-negative-zindex.html