OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[Kevin Street]

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.

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Kevin Street
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