Closed Bug 878207 Opened 11 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Pre-load top site thumbnails for popular sites that disable caching?

Categories

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Firefox Start, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Metro Graveyard
Component:
Firefox Start
Platform:
All
Windows 8.1
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: bbondy, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [defect] p=0) 

Should we preload some of the top 10 site thumbnails for the Firefox Start page that use https?

We have a really cool start page, but currently everyone's view of the start page that uses twitter, gmail, facebook, bing... will be a bit crappy with a solid block color for those top sites.

Or maybe we need to be less restrictive about when we generate thumbnail snapshots.  Ally mentioned a generate snapshots for https pref. I think we should only be using the no-cache Cache-Control http header?
Summary: Preload top site thumbnails for top sites that use https by default? → Defect - Pre-load top site thumbnails for top sites that use https by default?
Whiteboard: feature=defect c=tbd u=tbd p=0
(In reply to Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy] from comment #0)
> We have a really cool start page, but currently everyone's view of the start
> page that uses twitter, gmail, facebook, bing... will be a bit crappy with a
> solid block color for those top sites.

Another solution would be to grab screenshots using a background request without cookies, as desktop Firefox will do (bug 841495).

> Or maybe we need to be less restrictive about when we generate thumbnail
> snapshots.  Ally mentioned a generate snapshots for https pref. I think we
> should only be using the no-cache Cache-Control http header?

This is already fixed (bug 849819).
Depends on: 841495
OS: Windows 8 → Windows 8 Metro
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Summary: Defect - Pre-load top site thumbnails for top sites that use https by default? → Defect - Pre-load top site thumbnails for popular sites that disable caching?
Depends on: 850909
No longer depends on: 841495
FWIW this is pretty much what desktop's going to do in bug 870100 as a first start. Can we un-fork thumbnailing in the near term?
Why is this marked as a defect? Technically it's a new feature request.
(In reply to Jim Mathies [:jimm] from comment #3)
> Why is this marked as a defect? Technically it's a new feature request.

I don't have the original story handy, but probably because the original story just said to present thumbnails and in some cases we're not showing them when we could by sending a request without cookies.  

The whole Defect vs Change things is sometimes subjective though so I don't give too much weight to it.
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: feature=defect c=tbd u=tbd p=0 → feature=defect c=Firefox_Start u=tbd p=0
Blocks: 821923
Whiteboard: feature=defect c=Firefox_Start u=tbd p=0 → feature=defect c= u=tbd p=0
Blocks: 831923
No longer blocks: 821923
Whiteboard: feature=defect c= u=tbd p=0 → feature=defect c=firefox_start u=metro_firefox_user p=0
No longer blocks: 831923
No longer blocks: metrov2defect&change
Summary: Defect - Pre-load top site thumbnails for popular sites that disable caching? → Pre-load top site thumbnails for popular sites that disable caching?
Whiteboard: feature=defect c=firefox_start u=metro_firefox_user p=0 → [defect] p=0
Priority: P3 → --
OS: Windows 8 Metro → Windows 8.1
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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