63993 - no status bar progress when downloading inline news attachments

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

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from n.p.m.mail-news, ron cresswell wrote:

> I have noticed that when Mozilla/NS6 download messages which have 
> attachments that are also downloaded with the message, the progress 
> meter only shows progress for the message itself, and not the 
> attachment. The only way to see if the attachment is being downloaded is 
> to watch the modem lights! Is this deliberate? Configurable? Being 
> worked on?

I'm seeing status bar (but not throbber) activity with IMAP messages with inline
attachments.

I'm not seeing status bar activity with news messages with
attachments.

Comment 1

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updating summary.  accepting.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

You're absolutely right, Seth.  We don't display any progress whatsoever on 
downloading attachments (i.e. images), which makes the overall feeling of 
downloading news articles be 'slow'. At least for me.  So this is definitely a 
usability bug.

Upgrading to major, comment if you disagree.

Comment 3

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Still happens with build 2001-12-14-03, Windows 2000, 'Loading document...'.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

Can someone tell if we are displaying progress when downloading IMAP
attachments? (i.e. is this news-only?)

Comment 5

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Yes, for IMAP we display inline progress meter...

Comment 6

[William]

I don't understand,
This is a MAJOR bug,
Somebody assigned it

And after 1 year it's still in it.

Will this be solved soon??
Cause version 1 needs a good status bar...

Comment 7

[Honglin Su]

Mozilla is my default email tool, my current version is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312. While reading email and loading the
message/attachment (IMAP), it doesn't show the download status on the status
bar. I think it is critical usability feature.

Comment 8

[Geoff Leach]

Both status bar and throbber work for me for downloading mail articles with
largish attachments. That's in the mail/news client window. 

I also posted a message with a larg(ish) attachment to n.p.m.test 
news://news.mozilla.org:119/baf84u$[e-mail]
Again both status bar and throbber work for me in the mail/news client window.
The throbber and little rotating circle also worked when I opened the above url
in a tab in the main browser window. 

The newsserver I have access to does not have any traffic in the alt.binaries or
alt.warez groups so I couldnt test with news messages from those groups.
 
RH9. 1.4b cvs trunk 

about:buildconfig

Configure arguments
--enable-svg --enable-calendar --enable-crypto --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
--disable-toolkit-gtk --disable-toolkit-qt --enable-xft --enable-freetype2
--enable-cpp-rtti --enable-cpp-exceptions --enable-extensions --with-system-jpeg
--with-system-zlib --with-system-png --with-system-mng

(Now I just hope none of the spambots notice my email address in the screen grab
image, sigh :-))

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 190967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note that bug 190967 contains some good information that may help solve this.

Comment 11

[Travis Chase]

*** Bug 103877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 13

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM on Linux 3.0--when I open a message in a new window, I do see the progress bar update as it loads.