287374 - Firefox needs a loading/progress bar for installing extensions/themes (possible command line option)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Fischbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 (ax)

When I first load the browser on people's machines, I usually install a LOT of
extensions at once.  This forces me to restart the browser.  Even on fast (3.4
GHz) machines, the browser could take up to 30 seconds to start!  Plus, normal
users (aka Joe/Jane Shmoes) would probably like to know (have some sort of
visual indication) what their browser is doing (instead of just waiting for it
to load).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

This is a slight variation on Bug 198605 "-splash" parameter is no longer
honored (splash screen does not appear) which is wontfixed

Comment 2

[Dan Fischbach]

Yeah, I figured that a splash screen for normal loading would get annoying (now
I know why they took it out of IE6 from IE4 & 5).

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

fixxed in 1.5b1