[K12OSN] Friggin' Firefox and K12LSP v5

[Eric Harrison]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, David Trask wrote:

> Ok...this is starting to drive me nuts.  As the folks from Hermon (Maine)
> posted a week ago....I am having the same problem with Firefox starting so
> slowly.  In fact, it's so slow that kids are clicking more than once in
> an effort to bring it up.  Once loaded it runs fun....it's launching it
> that's the problem.  I have a dual server setup using DHCP load balancing
> and failover and a Samba/LDAP server for authentication.  With K12LTSP v4
> and a lesser version of Firefox....there were no issues.  I'm not even
> sure where to look at the moment....it's almost as if it's not being
> cached in memory on the server and is loading a seperate instance each
> time.  I'm willing to dig a lot deeper, but need some ideas.  Anyone?

I nuked all of my extensions (I had quite a few) and noticed that 
firefox started up twice as fast.

I wonder if the long-list of language extensions that are now included
by default causes performance problems?

try logging in as root and...

 	cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.6/
     mkdir save
     mv extensions/* save

and see if the start time is better.

To put the language extensions back:

     cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.6/
     mv save/* extensions/


-Eric