OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[John Lagrue]

Kevin Street wrote:

> Eric Wood wrote:
>
>> Do a "strings" command on all the OOo binaries and grep for ip 
>> patterns.  I can't imagine why any ip address would be hard coded 
>> into the program.  Some FQDN's sure, but not an ip address.
>
>
> It's not going to be in the OO binary or everyone would be seeing 
> this.  My guess is that the addresses are coming from ~/.recently-used 
> which several gnome aps use to create a list of recently used file 
> names.  In OO these show up at the bottom of the File menu.  If you 
> end up with some remote URL's listed in the .recently-used file then 
> many apps will try to visit them when they start up.
>
> I don't know if there is a way to control what gets saved in the list, 
> but you can always clean it out manually and see if that speeds up the 
> OO startup.
>
Yes! I just removed the file and oowriter started up at its usual speed. 
I have no idea at all where those addresses came from because they were 
not listed in the file - but removing it has fixed things.

Thanks everyone for your advice.

JDL