Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> Is someone seeing that behavior or it's just me?
>>
>> If yes, I could report it to the backport's guys. If not, something
>> went wrong at my side and any hints would be great :-)
>>
>>
> I see the same behaviour with iceweasel from backports. When you launch
> iceweasel from the menu or a panel icon then you get start-up
> notification as specified in the last line of the file
> /usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop. When you launch from a
> terminal, that is not the case.
> 
> Still, I don't know the underlying reason why iceweasel displays the
> busy cursor for so long. Presumably some internal initialisation is
> taking longer than expected. But I'm convinced that that is still the
> case when launching from a terminal: it's just that we are not being
> made aware of the fact.

Thanks for your feedback. I think I've discovered a very "dumb" trick.

Just creating a new launcher seems to solve the problem. You can use the 
same options (command: iceweasel %u, description: Web browsing... etc.)

Could you please check if it also works for you?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón