Launchpad itself

product downloads page causes browser hang/unhappiness

Bug #499351 reported by Martin Pool on 2009-12-22

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Launchpad itself	Fix Released	High	Brad Crittenden	Launchpad itself 10.01

Bug Description

bialix reports

2009/12/21 Alexander Belchenko <email address hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know is it possible to fix, but I'll whine anyway.
>
> The page https://launchpad.net/bzr/+download has so much info and
> javascripts, so every time when I right-click on the setup.exe file to
> select "Save File As..." menu my Firefox freeze for a minute or so.
>
> I don't know what it makes so slow, but this effect I see only on LP.
>
> I'd like to have it faster and light-weight. Any ideas/suggestions?

I have also seen screen corruption on this page (in Jaunty) which is in a sense a firefox bug but suggests this page may be pushing the boundaries.

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Related branches

lp:~bac/launchpad/bug-499351-batching-dls

Merged into lp:launchpad

Curtis Hovey (community): Approve (ui) on 2010-01-20

Martin Albisetti: Pending (ui) requested 2010-01-19

Revision history for this message

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote on 2009-12-29:

This is the very reason I resisited putting changelog and release notes on the page. I thnk gthe right solution is to remove them, which is not please you Martin. We might consider batching downloads. It will not be as simple as other pages because the data is not a single table.

Changed in launchpad-registry:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

Revision history for this message

Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2010-01-04: Re: [Bug 499351] Re: product downloads page causes browser hang/unhappiness

2009/12/30 Curtis Hovey <email address hidden>:
> This is the very reason I resisited putting changelog and release notes
> on the page. I thnk gthe right solution is to remove them, which is not
> please you Martin. We might consider batching downloads. It will not be
> as simple as other pages because the data is not a single table.

I think if you removed them from there but kept them on the individual
release page that would be ok.

Ideally the paragraph-long release notes would be shown (unexpanded)
but the full changelog would be hidden. Showing just the release
notes should not cause much bloat. That has the slight snag that for
a long time the changelog was never displayed and so we put them into
the release notes.

Eventually this page probably will need batching; it's already much
longer than most Launchpad pages.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>