the spinner / throbber takes far too long to start spinning on a navigation. This makes navigation feel painfully slow. Steps to reproduce: 1. visit http://msn.com 2. wait for page to finish loading (what a mess that is) 3. dismiss the onscreen keyboard by scrolling the page 4. click a link. Results: The link text gets a blue background highlight for a moment Then the background reverts to white and the link text has a blue outline for a moment. Then the spinner / throbber starts to spin. Expected results: The moment the link is activated, the spinner / throbber should start spinning. tested with latest fennec mobile nightly on a Galaxy Nexus.

Asa - we landed a patch a few days ago that uses the same trigger as desktop firefox for starting the throbber. Have you noticed any change?

I can't say I remember precisely what it was like before but it seems totally acceptable to me today. resolving as wfm.