91009 - Subscribe to newsgroups link needs user feedback / hourglass mouse pointer

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[WD]

BuildID:    2001071604

When I click the link to subscribe to new newsgroups, it can take 10-15 seconds
before the subscribe window comes up.   During this time, the mouse cursor is
normal and there's no feedback that Mozilla is doing something.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click the Subscribe to Newsgroups link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  No hourglass cursor or any other feedback

Expected Results:  The mouse pointer has an hourglass and/or other visual feedback

I thought that mozilla had hung up since CPU was at 100% and I couldn't do
anything, but after the subscribe dialog came up after a while everything was fine.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Part of/related to bug 73501, but not a DUP, outright.  Thanks for filing this.

Comment 2

[Tony Lambregts]

This is very annoying with a dial up conection 56k. It can take 5 to 10 minutes
to come up with no indication that its working. If your news server has lots of
newsgroups like news.telusplanet.net even with a DSL connection it takes about a
minute. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313

Comment 3

[Tony Lambregts]

With Thunderbird there is a progress bar that fits the bill. I think this could
be closed.

Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

This is no Thunderbird bug, so why should that be of any relevance here?