[26952] in Athena Bugs
Re: Firefox 1.5 load times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Sep 8 12:51:48 2006
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:50:35 +0000
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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A user came by SIPB and demonstrated firefox taking about three
minutes to load on zsr.mit.edu, an Athena Linux machine.
It seems like this problem is wider in scope than just Solaris,
and is probably pretty serious. I myself still use Mozilla most
of the time, so I suppose I don't notice.
Can you please expecdite looking into this?
Thanks!
--jhawk
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 7 Sep 2006
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> I certainly think that 1min10sec time to laod a web browser constitutes
> a bug.
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> --jhawk
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> 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>
> > To: bugs@mit.edu
> > 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.
