26741 - usability problems setting preferences on my.netscape.com

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[chris hofmann]

using the 2/01 win32 build on win95.
tried to reset some of the stocks in my portfolio.
-click on the little man

problem 1: the single portfolio I have is not
auto selected (it is on 4.72).  need to click
on the portfolio before the form with individual
stocks is loaded with current selections.

problem 2: changed some of the stock
selections, and pressed "save".  It took a very long
time for the my.netscape.com page to redraw (about
a minute or more on 56k dailup.) When the page redraw
completed the edits to the stock list were not refected
on the page or in my netcenter prefs.

All this worked fine using latest 4.72 build.

most likely more than one bug here.  lets get some
others to try it and confirm the problem and then
turn it in to how ever many bugs are needed.

Comment 1

[leger]

Putting on PDT+ radar for beta1.

Comment 2

[Paul MacQuiddy]

The bottom frame has over 800 lines of javascript, I'm sure the problem lies in 
there, maybe we should get a js guru to attack this

Comment 3

[chris hofmann]

clayton?  mateo?  assistimo con este problemo?

Comment 4

[clayton]

Rob, would you examine and reassign as needed?
= C =

Comment 5

[Robert Ginda]

I'll see what I can make of it.

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

Testing with last night's win32 binary on NT, my portfolio settings take affect,
and the reload of the main page seemed on par with 4.7.  

The auto-select of my single portfolio did not occur, I'm looking into the
issue.

chofmann: can you verify that settings are being saved and redraw is normal in
current builds?

Comment 7

[Tom Everingham]

Robert, copying dp and steve on this.  After talking to dp he thinks this could 
be related to some changes he made with 'lazy cookie loading'.  Assigning QA to 
myself.

Comment 8

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Cookies are lazily loaded. So like it would be my bug if you visit
my.netscape.com and dont see your page but instead the generic page.

Comment 9

[Tom Everingham]

Dp, I think that's what we're seeing.  It remembers your settings because if you 
click on the little guy, your portfolio will come up without logging in (that 
is, if you are already signed in and hitting the site again).  

Comment 10

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

So then it aint the cookie lazy init releated. This should go back to rginda right ?

Comment 11

[chris hofmann]

So we are getting better, and I know see what
rginda sees.  The 'data loss' part is gone.
If I change a stock symbol the change is reflected when
I return to the the page, and it remembered in future 
sessions when I use today's build.

The auto selection to not pick the first and only
stock portfolio in my list is a lost of functionallity
from 4.x, but I think we could live with this for beta.

removing the pdt+ so this is considered for removal
from the beta stoppers.   If anyone else has comment
put it in the bug before 4:00p.

Comment 12

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Tom I am giving this back to you since this bug has morphed enough and maybe you
will have the right handle on who this should go to.

Comment 13

[Tom Everingham]

DP  ok,   when I hit my.netscape.com I always see the generic page between  
sessions (exiting mozilla and re-starting).   It should be loaded automatically
if I hadn't previously signed out.  Isn't that the possible problem with lazy 
loading we talked about?

I was thinking the problem with not remembering the first stock portfolio was 
related to this but probably wrong.

Comment 14

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Yes what you descibe is a potential lazy load problem. Taking back bug.

Comment 15

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

This should be PDT+. Putting it so for reconsideration.

Comment 16

[Tom Everingham]

ugh .. DP narrowed down what I was seeing to a bad install ... so this
isn't as bad as it originally appeared.   This is narrowed down to just
the auto loading bug.  Opened bug 27152 and invalidating this.

Comment 17

[Tom Everingham]

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