Feedback and small request

[anwar-alsilwy]

Hi Mr.tnodir, I hope you are doing well.

first of all, I like your recently changes about dark theme, color of system tray icon and the (Animate Alert Icon feature) is super cool.
The dark theme become more and more impressive.

But I want to tell you about two things please:

1- After I reboot my PC and open the FortFirewall (Programs) window, when I try to click or select any Application, I noticed that the window become laggy and not responding for seconds, after that it becomes normal. this always happen after reboot or start FortFirewall for first time.

2- On programs UI window, I suggest to relocate (State) column next to (Name) column, so we can see the App state without needing to Maximize the window or moving the slide , OR you can just make the columns movable, See Pictures bellow:

Thank you so much for this piece of art.

[tnodir]

@anwar-alsilwy Please check v3.6.8.

[anwar-alsilwy]

Testing ...
Thanks a lot.
BTW you can also make Group column after State column. (Name | State | Group| ..... etc).

What about program UI window become laggy issue?

[tnodir]

BTW you can also make Group column after State column. (Name | State | Group| ..... etc).

It’s how it now, i.e. name, state, group, path, time. Or do you have other order of columns?

[tnodir]

What about program UI window become laggy issue?

It should work better now. Is it still laggy on first startup?

[anwar-alsilwy]

I always far from my PC when I report issue ☺️
Now I'll test it this moment 😉 ...

[anwar-alsilwy]

Well, Here what I found on v3.6.8 :
1- The order of (name, state, group, path, time) is correct and pretty nice, thanks.

2- The program UI still laggy and not responding for seconds after reboot or first starting.

3- There is a critical bug happened, after you change any thing on options it won't apply or save changes, that's weird.

[tnodir]

3- There is a critical bug happened, after you change any thing on options it won't apply or save changes, that's weird.

Thanks, fixed in v3.6.9.

[tnodir]

2- The program UI still laggy and not responding for seconds after reboot or first starting.

I've to reproduce this on slow computer...

[anwar-alsilwy]

Yes

I've to reproduce this on slow computer...

Yes, my PC is kind of slow, but program UI still need to optimize speed, you can reproduce this on VMware/Vbox using small amount of resources like slow PC.

Thanks for fixing release 3.6.9

[tnodir]

2- The program UI still laggy and not responding for seconds after reboot or first starting.

@anwar-alsilwy Please check v3.7.0.

[anwar-alsilwy]

Last night I tested it
It's a little bit better than before but still lag for 2 or 3 sec
But no problem.
Also, some times the message " Service isn't response" appears when I allow or block or even remove apps.
I resolve it by exit fortfirewall.exe first, and restart fortfirewallSVC and run fortfirewall.exe again.
I always hate this bug. I thought you fixed it before.

[tnodir]

@anwar-alsilwy 1. What are specs of your computer: CPU, RAM, HDD?
2. What Windows version?
3. How many seconds does Windows start up?
4. Try to turn off the "Collect blocked connections" flag in Options: Statistics.

[tnodir]

you can reproduce this on VMware/Vbox using small amount of resources like slow PC.

Actually you can't slow down CPU or HDD in VM.
It seems you have slow HDD in your case.

[anwar-alsilwy]

@anwar-alsilwy 1. What are specs of your computer: CPU, RAM, HDD? 2. What Windows version? 3. How many seconds does Windows start up? 4. Try to turn off the "Collect blocked connections" flag in Options: Statistics.

1- CPU: Intel Core i3 1st generation, Ram: 4 GB DDR3, HDD: 160 GB.
2- Windows 10 21H2
3- windows takes about 1m:15sec to boot to desktop
4- I will try to turn off "Collect blocked connections" tomorrow.
BTW, yes my HDD is slow.
Thanks.

[anwar-alsilwy]

Hi Mr.tnodir
I recently tested FF 3.7.2, here are my notes:

1- Program UI become more faster than before when first start after boot, still not responding for 2 or 3 sec but maybe my PC is slow.

2- hotkeys, color and animate tray icon working just fine.

3- Password function is pretty genius, but I have two notes:
A: [ Bug ] When I enable password function, It works just fine but sometimes without known reason, password disappear and become completely open, and that's weird.
B: [ Request ] password function need more protection, when I uninstall FF it requires exit from tray icon and FF won't exit without password and that's fine, but I still can kill FF from task manager and uninstall FF normally, So we need password request when try to uninstall it.

4- Group Speed limit is working just fine and I'm not facing any issues or BSOD so far.

5- Quota function not working as expected, because sometimes I set daily quota to (e.g 20 MiB) and set ( stop internet traffic when quota exceed) and clear the daily statistics, but unfortunately internet keeps working over 20 MiB and even quota warning message not appear.
After I exit and open FF many times quota works normally.

6- I noticed that FF detect FortFirewallSvc when restarting service automatically and that's great 👍, BUT (Service isn't responding) message still appear from time to time 😔.
I reproduce this issues with temporary solution.
It's important to see video link please:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5mzq6vjhwi7jmgc/Anwar-Error-video.zip/file

Thank you so much Master @tnodir for this piece of art,
You have all respect.