709497 - spinner / throbber takes far too long to start spinning on a navigation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

the spinner / throbber takes far too long to start spinning on a navigation. This makes navigation feel painfully slow.

Steps to reproduce:
1. visit http://msn.com
2. wait for page to finish loading (what a mess that is)
3. dismiss the onscreen keyboard by scrolling the page
4. click a link. 

Results: 
The link text gets a blue background highlight for a moment
Then the background reverts to white and the link text has a blue outline for a moment.
Then the spinner / throbber starts to spin.

Expected results:
The moment the link is activated, the spinner / throbber should start spinning.

tested with latest fennec mobile nightly on a Galaxy Nexus.

Comment 1

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

Asa - we landed a patch a few days ago that uses the same trigger as desktop firefox for starting the throbber. Have you noticed any change?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I can't say I remember precisely what it was like before but it seems totally acceptable to me today. resolving as wfm.