136644 - [UX] progress bar required while generating print preview

Status: NEW

(Core :: Print Preview, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Waheed Islam]

when generating a print preview of the url given, mozilla takes quite a while;
and while this is happening, all other mozilla windows and tabs are frozen.

So I suggest displaying at least a progress bar which lets the user know that
the app hasn't crashed.

Comment 1

[Waheed Islam]

if there is nothing to base a progress bar on [perhaps too hard?], then I
suggest some type of dialogue box with an animated icon to indicate moz [or
rather the cpu] is workin' hard.

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

The Progress is actually flown at the right spot it just isn't geting CPU to be
displayed. So I need to add a timer befor kicking off PP.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

You can base the progress on the current position in the DOM from which the page
is rendered. Or easier, I know you don't know the total pagecount beforehand.
Just show the number of pages rendered so far. There would be no percentage,
just a count up.

Comment 4

[astrowob]

probably WONTFIX since so old and not applicable anymore?

Comment 5

[:aceman]

I still do not see a progress bar in Firefox 4 on Linux. The temporary dialog shows only "Preparing..."
The bug seems still valid. Even though on modern OSes and machines it may take a lot of luck to find a page that takes more than 2 seconds to generate Print preview.

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 24 weeks.