529873 - New bugzilla is very slow to load over dialup connection

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

"Sunday, November 15, 10pm PST (0600 UTC) we're  running Bugzilla 3.4.3"

I report problems through bugzilla on Firefox and Thunderbird.

I have a dialup connection. The new bugzilla loads very, very slowly. I've watched the Windows XP Task Manger networking display, and it's maxing out the connection the whole time. This did not used to be the case. Some recent changes have made it take forever for pages to load. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access bugzilla for Firefox or Thunderbird
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Very slow loading.


Expected Results:  
Load in a reasonable time like it used to.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

Which page exactly is slow? All the work is done on the server, and the dialup connection has nothing to do here, unless you have a lot of data to download.

Comment 2

[Doug Hockin]

I included the URL of the original page I was working on in this problem report in the URL field. It's a recent phenomena, never used to be a problem. And I can see how busy it is in the network monitor display.

I just did a test from a fresh instance of Firefox (3.5.5) of the following
bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528558.

11:37:36
Login: 11:38:07
Display

Comment 3

[Doug Hockin]

I included the URL of the original page I was working on in this problem report in the URL field. It's a recent phenomena, never used to be a problem. And I can see how busy it is in the network monitor display.

I just did a test from a fresh instance of Firefox (3.5.5) of the following
bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528558.

11:37:36    Start

11:38:07    Login

11:40:00    Display of page complete

The network connection (dialup, 49K) was maxed out the whole time.

Then I loaded this bug's page and it went much quicker, so I suspect it's loading lots of stuff on the first page and caching it.

11:43:23    Start

11:44:02    Display of page complete

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

There's a lot more javascript in modern versions of Bugzilla, and when there upgrades, when you have to load the javascript for the first time, the initial connections will be slow. If there's a persistent problem with dialup (that is more extreme with Bugzilla than with other web applications of a similar variety) then we can re-open this bug.