1644471 - Allow unresponsive pages to be reloaded

Status: NEW

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

When we show the "A web page is slowing down your browser, what would you like to do?" banner when a page is unresponsive, my instinct is to simply hit Command-R to reload it. Because that is what I do in other cases of half loaded or slow/badly loaded pages. But that doesn't work in the case when we have determined that a page is unresponsive. The only options are to use the buttons in the banner (Wait, Stop) or to close the tab.

What I would like to suggest is that Reload will become an alias to "Stop and then load again".

Comment 1

[Andrew Creskey [:acreskey]]

There is a larger story around dealing with the unresponsive UI.
Various UX alternatives are being considered and I don't know if this is one of them.
Tagging esmyth as I'm not able to find the JIRA for this work.

Comment 2

[esmyth]

:acreskey, thanks for the ni

:st3fan, thanks for the suggestion. The slow script warning and modal have a long history in Firefox and many suggestions over the years for how to improve. The platform and desktop perf teams are taking a look at the experience, to include the UI, in H2 and starting with improved telemetry to better understand impact and user response to long-running scripts. The Epic is tracked in Jira as FXP-1161.

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Seems like a valid request to me, but given comment 2, I don't think this bug is directly actionable.

Comment 4

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Moving this out of the performance component. This is an enhancement request for a browser feature, it's not about a specific performance problem that can be addressed.