[Minimizing Fedora] Langpacks for Firefox.

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sat Apr 28 15:22:21 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Once more, this is not a problem with translations but with the way
>> firefox loads .xpi files.
> 
> Putting aside the issue of on-disk space for a moment.... and just
> focusing on the "potential" issue raised concerning runtime impact of
> parsing all these languages addons.  In your estimation, would it be
> worthwhile to enhance firefox with a way to simply disable all
> languages other than the current locale?

I've been pondering doing some thing where the extensions are in a 
different directory and get copied to $appdir/extensions on startup on 
first use.

It's not clear to me there is
> a measurable runtime difference between having them all disabled or
> enabled at startup.  I've disabled all of them manually in the
> addon-ons interface but I'm not sure its really impacting the startup
> time at all. Does disabling them in the addon interface prevent the
> xpi files from being parsed?

No, it still needs to parse it, find it's uuid, and then figure out 
whether it's been disabled by comparing to the user's profile.




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