[26955] in Athena Bugs
Re: Firefox 1.5 load times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Fri Sep 8 18:37:16 2006
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:37:05 -0400
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On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:23 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> 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?
Without modifying firefox, we probably only have two options --
remove the langpack extensions, or force the extension
directories to have the same modtime across all machines
somehow.
>
> I'm confused. I thought that all the relevant files were
> local to the machine?
The profile directory is in AFS, and firefox spends a lot of time
rewriting the profile extensions data in the Linux scenario
I described. We also load plugins and math fonts from the
infoagents locker, though that does not seem to be the big
problem here.
Bob
