610693 - Extension installation prompt takes 5-6 seconds to pop up when starting a ext download on AMO

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 610689

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Build Id:
Mozilla/5.0 (Maemo; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101109 Namoroka/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b3pre

and

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101109 Namoroka/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b3pre

Note: The prompt pops up in < 1 second with the desktop osx build.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to addons.mozilla.org/mobile
2. Click on the "Add to Mobile" for any of the listed recommended add-ons on the page
3. Wait

Actual Results:
Nothing is shown to the user for 5-6 seconds 

Expected Results:
It shouldn't take 5-6 seconds to pop up the extension installation chooser prompt.

Comment 1

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

What UI are you talking about?

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

aak* taking a video would be a good thing

Comment 3

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

I see the same pause on Linux desktop Fennec. The XPI must be downloaded before the prompt is displayed. Downloading the XPI takes time. Maybe it's a little slower because of IPC.

Comment 4

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

Attachment: The prompt

This is the prompt Aakash is talking about

Comment 5

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Desktop Minefield also has the same delay.

Comment 6

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

(In reply to comment #5)
> Desktop Minefield also has the same delay.

See bug 570012.

Is the patch in bug 610689 going to "fix" this by giving feedback?

Comment 7

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

Yes, I think bug 610689 will fix this, so duping