977827 - no progress bar when searching from about:start using the URL text field

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: Shell, defect, P1)

Description

[Kamil Jozwiak [:kjozwiak]]

Currently, when you're searching for something under the about:start window, there's no progress bar while the website is loading giving no feedback to the end user. Because we take a few seconds to complete this search, it's very unintuitive in my opinion. There's been a few times were I thought my "enter" didn't register with the browser, or the window has stalled some how. I think we should either:

a) speed up the URL text field search
b) add some type of indication that fxmetro is doing something when a user is searching via the URL text field

(I personally like (a) better but I'm not sure if that's feasible)

Looks like work from Bug #934714 removed progress bar under the about:start window.

Video of the issue:
- http://youtu.be/wAyh9PstL7I

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1) Open fxmetro
2) Under the about:start screen, type something into the search field and hit "Enter"
3) You'll notice that there's no progress bar being displayed when loading the search is in progress
Current Behavior:

- Searching through the URL text field under the navigation app bar is taking longer than expected

Expected Behavior:

- Once I hit "Enter", fxmetro should give the user some feedback that the search is in progress. Should probably take a lot quicker than it currently is.

Found the issue using the following build:
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-02-27-03-02-03-mozilla-central/
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2014-02-27-00-40-02-mozilla-aurora/

Comment 1

[Rodrigo Silveira [:rsilveira] [:rodms]]

This was made worse by bug 969356. We can't use [startpage] attribute for hiding progress bar anymore. When then search engine response is slow it really seems like nothing is happening.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Mass close of bugs in obsolete product https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350354