612034 - no progress bar and messages when manually checking for updates

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[al_9x]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7

3.6 has both

with many add-ons, this could be a lengthy operation, so ui feedback is needed.

in addition to printing the add-on name, as in 3.6, the host name would be useful, to see where it's getting stuck

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

You mean the status at the left side of the utility button?

Comment 2

[al_9x]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You mean the status at the left side of the utility button?

Where they should be placed is a separate question, left of the button is reasonable since it already has the static status text "updating add-ons," but the main point is that they are absent.

If it's not clear what I am referring to, do a manual update check in 3.6.  During the checking, at the top of the add-on manager window, there is a spinner, progress bar, progress messages ("finished checking for updates to <extension>")

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Not sure if this could be part of 4.0 due to necessary string changes. But I would like to get feedback from Jennifer. Confirming for now.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Not going to block 4.0.

Any progress messages wouldn't really be useful since we no longer serially check each extension one after the other, instead we do them in parallel meaning that results come in randomly but often after about the same amount of time which would lead to a jerky progress bar which you can't really draw any conclusions from. We flag errors during the update check about specific add-ons in the error console but the majority of errors are out of the users' hands so it doesn't make much sense to expose it to them in primary UI.

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Not going to block 4.0.
> 
> Any progress messages wouldn't really be useful since we no longer serially
> check each extension one after the other, instead we do them in parallel
> meaning that results come in randomly but often after about the same amount of
> time which would lead to a jerky progress bar which you can't really draw any
> conclusions from. We flag errors during the update check about specific add-ons
> in the error console but the majority of errors are out of the users' hands so
> it doesn't make much sense to expose it to them in primary UI.
We actually checked them in parallel previously which is why the ui reported when a checked finished vs. a check started.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

given comment 4 and comment 5, is it safe to say that this is no longer relevant to the current UI, that a patch would not be approved if provided?

Comment 7

[Andy McKay]

Probably safe to assume, but I confess I've no idea what UI is being talked about in this bug. Marking as won't fix as a result. If anyone knows where this, a screenshot would help.

Thanks for checking on this Wayne.