746581 - Showing previously-loaded page when loading a new page is really confusing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Pancake Graveyard :: Front-end, defect)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

An example of what I mean:

1) I've just finished reading a Wikipedia page about Butterflies
2) I go back to the homescreen and do a search for Potroast Recipes
3) I click on a Potroast search result
4) Pancake shifts over to the webpage view, but is still displaying the Butterflies Wikipedia page
5) A second or so passes as the Potroast page loads & displays

During that second where I'm looking at the Butterflies page I'm really confused because I expect to be looking at either the Potroast page or a blank page with a throbber or something.

Not sure what plans are in place to mitigate this.

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Agreed, I've had the same confusion. 

See https://bitbucket.org/mozillapancake/pancake/changeset/5636373be100, where I created an empty loading page (/loading.html) and corresponding assets. Perhaps we could swap in this content before dispatching the request for the new page?

Comment 2

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

Blanking out the page now. Let me know if that is better or not.

(Weird .. i am pretty sure this is a duplicate and that I commented on it already. Can't find it though)