[26949] in Athena Bugs
Firefox 1.5 load time on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Thu Sep 7 11:05:38 2006
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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This isn't really a bug, but I can't think of a better place to send it.
OLC has been literally overwhelmed with users saying "firefox doesn't
work". As noted earlier on this list, there was a problem with the
wrapper script detecting the lockfile, and that fix now appears to have
gone out, since I just got our custom dialog box, nistead of firefox's.
However, elapsed time from clicking the WWW icon to getting a browser
window on a SunBlade 100 is about 70 seconds. That's a long time, and a
lot of people are clicking the icon multiple times, and then (on
quickstations) giving up and logging out.
It would be nice (though probably not worth the effort involved) if there
was some sort of feedback to the user along the lines of "Yes, you clicked
the button, now be patient". Perhaps a non-modal dialog box that
disappeared after a few seconds?
Anyway, like I said, not really a bug, but it's happening enough that
we're seeing a lot of people with these symptoms.
