On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 15:03 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > I'm running Firefox under F8 and F9 on five different machines, > and it's a pain on every one of them, albeit in slightly different ways; > but the differences differ, too. > > The first thing they have in common is that it takes forever to > launch -- when it does launch. The second is that it mostly doesn't. It > will try, and the little blue dots will circle for a while, and the > window list on the panel will show a mark for it -- for a while. > Sometimes one or another window will flash up and disappear, usually too > fast even to identify. ---- slow startup is because Firefox looks at all installed extensions to determine whether an update is available and then Firefox looks to see if a newer version of Firefox is available. The more extensions, the longer the startup delay. You can configure this... Firefox => Edit (menu) => Preferences => Advanced (tab) => Update (tab) ---- > Then it will either all go away, or I'll get a lasting window > telling me it's already running but not responding. Sometimes after that > Firefox will actually launch, sometimes not. > > If not, sometimes clicking the launcher again will bring it up; > sometimes it comes up double, or even with two different sessions -- and > shutting either will usually shut both. Other times it helps to do ps ax| > grep firefox, find one or several pids with question marks, kill them, > and start over. ---- Firefox creates a 'lock' file - in .mozilla/firefox/$YOUR_SALTED_PROFILE/.parentlock which is intended to prevent multiple launches. Multiple launches often occur when double clicking to start from a launcher rather than a single click or 4 clicks when a double click is sufficient. I run into this far too often because I sysadmin a network with a lot of less skilled computer users. This should probably be improved because the cure seems to be as bad as the problem. ---- > It is consistently worse on some machines than others -- but not, > afaict, on F8 more than F9 or vice versa, nor with Ffx 2 more or less > than the other. > > I try to keep it as nearly standardized as I can. The best way is > to add FEBE to any new install of Firefox, and then copy in a FEBE folder > by scp or sneakermail, and run a restore. ---- pardon my ignorance, what is FEBE ? ---- > > But I have one machine (a Dell Poweredge SC 1420, formerly the > server for a private list, and not yet fully wiped) which refuses > adamantly to read media or to do scp; so there are hardly any extensions > on its Ffx -- and it works better. > > Are there extensions that Fedora will allow but not get along > with, or that don't get along with Fedora? Do I have too many? (The > latest FEBE restore tab listed 79 items.) Or what? ---- I find all of the language extensions to be pointless for my usage but I can't tell if it's because my system/profile has existed for quite some time and has been upgraded from like FC-4, FC-5, etc. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
