184667 - Please allow page timer to be a preference-controlled feature

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 175231

(SeaMonkey :: Page Info, enhancement)

Description

[Mike McNally]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Unless there's something about the page timer that intractably compromises other
parts of the system, I and others have found it useful enough for website
testing that the loss of the page timer is sorely felt.  Perhaps it isn't very
accurate, but I've always found it sufficiently consistent that I could use it
to judge the effectiveness of various sorts of website optimization.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Over 99% of users don't care how fast a page loaded.  More likely, the time will
make a browser appear slow if it isn't a second or two. In addition, our times
are not necessarily accurate.  This was a conscious decision to remove the time
from the status bar in bug 48436.

I'll dupe it against bug 175231 (bring back the timer), but there's also bug
170284 (performance info in page-info)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175231 ***