On 18.10.2010 23:19, Philip Chee wrote: --- Original Message ---
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:39:48 -0400, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > >> If you will refer back to my original question, which you keep ducking, >> I asked whether the splash screen had been eliminated or whether I >> needed to toggle an option to restore it. I can afford to waste 5-10 KB >> of RAM for a few seconds to confirm that the program is actually >> starting. It's not like I'm killing more trees to print out a manual I >> use as a doorstop. > > The Splash screen was lost in the migration to the new toolkit used by > Firefox and Thunderbird. *Then* the toolkit peers weren't interested in > splash screens and told us toughies. But Fennec came along and it > started up really sloooow (at least in the early alphas) so all of a > sudden Toolkit gained a splash screen. All we need is [1] someone to add > a bunch of lines to get back a splash screen and [2] someone else to > provide a suitable splash screen. Any volunteers? > > Phil > If!! The new splash screen performs actual functionality like in the old days of Netscape Navigator, etc. instead of just looking pretty then yes, I'm all for it. Otherwise I really don't need to be reminded by a splash screen what I'm loading -- :-) Of course it could be turned off in the prefs I would hope. -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Flock - Thunderbird _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
