647386 - Sync status is not indicated

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 611500

(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement)

Description

[Nordware]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

In early builds of the Sync Add-on there was a little spinning Sync icon displayed in the status bar while it was busy.
It would be nice to have something like this in the Firefox menu, so the user can see if Sync is busy. It would be useful for example if one wants to close Firefox, but wait for Sync to finish, so he can continue his session from an other computer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the Firefox menu button and choose "Sync Now".
Actual Results:  
Firefox is syncing in background, so you can hardly tell if it is actually syncing.

Expected Results:  
There should be some kind of throbber indicating that Sync is busy.

Comment 1

[Nordware]

Attachment: Mockup

This is just a quick mockup to illustrate what i'm speaking of.
By default, Firefox displays the "Sync Now" text even while syncing.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

dupe of bug 611500 ?

Comment 3

[Nordware]

(In reply to comment #2)
> dupe of bug 611500 ?

Indeed...