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Originally Posted by climbingtractor
Bringing up the activity monitor is hardly 'at a glance'.
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How so? If knowing how long something has left to load is important, just put it next to your browser window.
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Originally Posted by dnorman
just as a simple theres-still-some-stuff-to-load-but-its-mostly-loaded-already kind of thing.
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The thing is, there's nothing anymore accurate about a progress bar than what currently exists. Well, nothing short of the activity monitor. This is because "mostly loaded" is a complete guess. There could be one ad lagging behind so, although the progress bar may show the page is 95% complete, it may only be 5% complete. Looking at the activity monitor is the only real way to have an educated guess on what's left to load. Then you can see that one resource is taking 20 seconds to load but everything else is done.
Another indicator that already exists is in the status bar. It will show something like "15 of 30 resources loaded." This is more accurate than a progress bar. I can see that half of the resources are loaded, but it doesn't imply that the page is halfway done loading - unlike a progress bar.