On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>
wrote:

> On Saturday 23 February 2008 00:07, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > Just upgraded to the current testing snapshot (sh update.sh testing),
> and I
> > am still finding that it takes a rediculous amount of time for FProxy to
> > show up the first time (my browser has now been hanging for well over a
> > minute).
>
> Define "hanging".


The browser is requesting the fproxy page, but *none* of the page has been
delayed yet.


> According to the below thread dump, fproxy is fetching
> something from Freenet. Presumably this is one of the activelinks, so when
> you say your browser is hanging, you mean it hasn't finished loading all
> the
> images on the front page?


No, none of the front page has loaded.


> Given that the front page contains activelinks (which are sourced from
> freesites), it's not so unreasonable to expect it to take a while to
> completely finish loading the pictures (especially as this involves
> loading
> the whole container which can be quite big in many cases). Having said
> that,
> when I have tested this it has occasionally appeared to me that fproxy
> requests started before freenet has any connections can get stuck and not
> complete even when it does get some. I will investigate.


As I mention above, its not just a few images on the page that aren't
loading, its the entire page.  Clearly this is a fatal usability problem,
any newbie that had just installed Freenet would be stopped in their tracks
at this point - and we would have lost a potential user.

Ian.

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