724859 - open in new tab menu can take a long time to appear

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

Sometimes, holding down on a link causes the open link in new tab menu only to appear after a significant delay -- more than five seconds in some cases.  

The easiest way to reproduce this is to go to a website with lots of links, such as Hacker News, and open a bunch in a row without switching to any of the new tabs.  After a few, it will start to take a while.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Which Android device and OS?

Comment 2

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

HTC Sensation, Android 2.3.4

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This might be a problem when there is a lot going on in background tabs, making Fennec slow.
Does this happen when you have a site like http://planet.mozilla.org in the background loading?

Comment 4

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

As I said, this only ever happens after at least one tab has been already opened, so Martijn's hypothesis is possible.  But I don't need to have anything slow-loading in the background to make it happen.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Sam: if you could produce a specific steps to reproduce, e.g.:

- Reboot phone
- Start Aurora
- Load page http://foo.com (a static page)
- Long press on the first 12 links on the page and choose "Open in new window"

-> The menu will take > 5 seconds to open for the 13th one

that would be helpful.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

Ok, here goes:

- Reboot phone
- Start nightly
- Visit http://punge.ccs.neu.edu/~samth/tmp/ [which I created for this purpose]
- Long-press each link in order, until it either pops up the "open in new tab" menu or the highlight goes away.
- Once you've long-pressed a link without the menu appearing, immediately do it again.  
- Eventually, you get the "open in new tab" menu.
- Select "open in new tab".
- Note that you still have an identical menu, even though the tab has opened.

Another way to reproduce:
- Open nightly.
- Open a lot of tabs (10+)
- Open an app the uses a lot of memory (like XUL Fennec with a lot of tabs)
- Switch back to nightly, so that the above page with lots of links comes up
- Repeat the above process of long-pressing.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Does this still happen?

Comment 8

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Please re-open if Sam can reproduce. I have not seen this on any channel on a variety of devices.

Comment 9

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

Sorry for not responding more recently.  I've seen this on Nightly on my Nexus 7 recently (but much much more rarely than in Feb/Mar when I reported it).  I'm judging slowness by ability to reproduce bug 724860.

Comment 10

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Sam, do you still see this?

Comment 11

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt [:samth]]

I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't know how recently.