[26954] in Athena Bugs
Re: Firefox 1.5 load times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Sep 8 18:23:50 2006
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:23:31 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 8 Sep 2006
at 17:38:05 -0400 in <1EC445C7-163F-4C4D-B13B-B4C463E22056@mit.edu>:
> It looks like part of the problem here is that firefox will update the
> extensions data in your profile directory when you run it on a
> different machine from the previous running, because the mod
> times on the extensions directories are different on each machine.
Thanks for the analysis. Hopefully you're looking into ways to
solve the problem?
...
> 15-20 seconds on my machine; assuming other users are also
> seeing ridiculous start-up times on Linux, I'm guessing that
> poor network and/or AFS performance is a major culprit.
>
> On Solaris, there are only three extensions (including ours),
> so I think the start-up delay there is mostly attributable to
> poor network and poor performance on the Sun Blade 100.
> But I will look into ways we might improve things.
I'm confused. I thought that all the relevant files were
local to the machine?
--jhawk
