It appears that even after the load is complete for any url request the timer for the animating Netscape icon is not stopped. This results in periodic requests for that image, even though we don't need it. So I guess the fix would probably be to simply get a hook into the allconnectionscomplete that should kill the timer that triggers the gif_delay_timer_callback... I haven't verified this on Mac or Linux but I would imagine it to be the same. Let me know if you need more details. Although this may sound small, we do a lot of sad/stupid stuff inside Netlib for every request and so fixing this will immensely improve our performance.

Maybe related to the timer->Cancel bug Michaelp warned me about. I'll look into it. thx Gagan, -pn

Gagan, Would you test to see if fix for bug#3853 fixed this. (ie, duplicate of bug#3853). thx, pn

Gagan has kindly volunteered to verify this, since it's over my head. Thanks, Gagan!

Verified fixed.

Thank you, Gagan!