[26950] in Athena Bugs
Re: Firefox 1.5 load time on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Sep 7 13:11:28 2006
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:11:11 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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I certainly think that 1min10sec time to laod a web browser constitutes
a bug.
--jhawk
Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 7 Sep 2006 at 11:05:01
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> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:05:01 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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> Subject: Firefox 1.5 load time on Suns
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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.
