Page loading feedback missing in home dash

[Damien Cassou]

Dear Home Dash developers,

I really like your extension and use it every day. I'm just missing
some kind of feedback when a page is loading. Sometimes, no page is
loading and I'm waiting forever for something to happen. Sometimes it
is the opposite: the tab is blank and I think I can close it but it is
in fact loading data. There is sometimes a "loading..." text that
appears next to the firefox icon (top-left of the window) but it's not
always the case. To reproduce:

- Install Firefox 4.0b12 on Mac OS X with Home Dash 6
- Visit a page (http://mozillalabs.com/ for example)
- Press Cmd-T to open home dash
- type some letters and accept the default page by pressing enter
- you are presented with a blank page with no clue that something is
loading

I would like to see what would appear in the status bar if it was
visible: the url of the page getting loaded. That way, I'm sure the
right thing is loading.

If you press Cmd-L instead of Cmd-T, you will see the 'loading...'
text.

What do you think?


Best regards

[Edward Lee]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Damien Cassou <damien...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you press Cmd-L instead of Cmd-T, you will see the 'loading...'

Thanks for the report! I've filed an issue for you:
https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues/175

There'll be a fix that more consistently shows the Connecting...
message even after you switch to a new tab (which is what you've
running into) and not just for the current page. This means if you
switch to another tab that you've opened a while ago and it still
happens to be connecting, you'll see that as well.

As an extra fix, it'll show the title of the page whenever it changes
(including switching to a different tab), so for pages like Google
Reader that updates its title with the number of articles remaining,
you can easily see how many more there are even in full screen when
there's no title bar.

Ed