On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:46:52PM -0800, Doug Thayer wrote:
> On 1/6/2021 1:44 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:30:00PM -0800, Doug Thayer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:23 PM Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 11:57:18AM -0800, Doug Thayer wrote:
> > > > > If you don't spend any time on Nightly in Windows 10, please feel 
> > > > > free to
> > > > > disregard this.
> > > > > 
> > > > > tl;dr: we're sometimes creating the first window differently than 
> > > > > usual,
> > > > so
> > > > > be on the lookout for breakages.
> > > > > 
> > > > > On 2021-01-05, a change landed in Nightly which enabled the pre-XUL
> > > > skeleton
> > > > > UI [1]. This is a feature which allows us to create the first window 
> > > > > and
> > > > > populate it with a non-interactive placeholder UI before we load
> > > > xul.dll. On
> > > > > some systems, this can mean we can give visual indication of Firefox
> > > > > launching as much as 15 seconds sooner than normal (loading xul.dll 
> > > > > can
> > > > take
> > > > > a while). We're hoping this could be a big win for users who 
> > > > > experience
> > > > very
> > > > > slow startups, and we also hope it will improve the overall 
> > > > > snappiness of
> > > > > startup even on fast systems.
> > > > What does the placeholder UI look like?
> > > > 
> > > Colors and layout can vary, but the basic look is this:
> > > [image: image.png]
> > The image attachment didn't quite work.
> 
> Woops. Here is a link: https://i.imgur.com/R4ynXW5.png

Does the placement and the size of that window vary?
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