558373 - on startup, takes a long time for start page to appear

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

When you start Fennec, you see a blank page and the "Enter Search or Address" stuff in the URL bar, but not the start page for a long time.  When you reload the start page, it's very quick (the add-ons appear a bit later, but there's a throbber).  Overall, this makes startup seem slow.

On an n900 using my profile (not helpful, I know) it's about 18 seconds after the Fennec UI appears before the start page fills in, with the add-ons coming in about 1s after the rest of the page (which is fine).

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

18 seconds is an amazingly long time. Without Weave installed, using my normal profile on my N900, it takes about 2 seconds.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Attachment: patch

This patch removes using the extension manager to check for weave. It depends on the weave code in browser only now.

I also moved the script code to the bottom of the HTML in the hopes that the HTML part of the page will display faster (web dev trick).

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

pushed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/8a2ba164a71f

Comment 4

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Verified code change in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5) Gecko/20100603 Firefox/3.6.5pre Fennec/1.1.   However, can we get a unit test for this since performance is something hard to manually verify?