Temporarily disable pre-upload SVG thumbnailing in Special:Upload and Special:UploadW...
authorBrion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:46:31 +0000 (22:46 +0000)
committerBrion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:46:31 +0000 (22:46 +0000)
commit702490c1695ba4e62b2582194caf347b486c950d
tree95e6d82ecb076c5cb42ae8f7736cbe0bb3378c7a
parent4365a6806d6d2126b4b33e08cafc8b9d3d369f2a
Temporarily disable pre-upload SVG thumbnailing in Special:Upload and Special:UploadWizard; workaround for worst part so far of bug 31643: some SVG files hanging Firefox during pre-upload thumbnail generation.

It's possible that this isn't SVG-specific though; large JPEGs are so far known to take a couple seconds and still pause the browser UI, but some SVGs hang Firefox 7/8/9 indefinitely when loaded as a data URI.

Upstream Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694165
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