148593 - Load html before others

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61711

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Alastair]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

In view of speeding up the page loading times, and the fact that mozilla has
problems with certain features until a page is fully loaded, can we have an
option to force waiting on the entire html for a page to be downloaded prior to
downloading any of the images/java objects etc?

This way we see the page layout and text navigation links quickly and javascript
is less likely to cause problems.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page
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Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

" and the fact that mozilla has
problems with certain features until a page is fully loaded, "

eh? which ones?

And, waiting for the HTML to download likely won't speed up total page load
time, since the total amount of data to download stays the same.

I'd say wontfix, but I'll let the module owner decide...

(platform,os->all)

Comment 2

[Alastair]

"eh? which ones?"

Such as that most useful feature of disabling pop-up windows unless activated by
the user.

It won't speed up overall page loading, but it should allow the page to be
displayed while the graphics continue to load, which allows for faster
navigation on slow connections.

Comment 3

[benc]

neeti: could this be a docshell or layout issue? I don't know how these two
modules interact in this context...

Comment 4

[neeti]

Layout

Comment 5

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

I would also recommend a wontfix, but i would also leave it to the module owner

Comment 6

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61711 ***