DISCOVERY Re: Why is Firefox such a beast??

[Alex Makhlin]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> Beartooth wrote, On 10/08/2008 12:49 PM:
>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:03:44 +0000, I 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.
>>     [...]
>>
>
> <SNIP>
>>     There are two things I've long made a practice of moving from 
>> machine to machine, either with scp or by sneakermail, whichever 
>> seemed easier at the time : FEBE, and my collection of desktop 
>> background pictures (aka wallpaper, I believe).
>>
>>     I had noticed a new problem with the pix, but hadn't thought to 
>> check for it with FEBE : a lot of files a/o folders would show up in 
>> nautilus with a padlock emblem. Lo and behold, the extension folders, 
>> and some others, were littered all over with those blasted padlocks.
>>
>
> do the 'padlocks' indicate read only? [I never use those GUI file 
> manglers on anything but MS.]
>
>>     I had also discovered that I could clear away the padlocks by 
>> right-clicking a parent folder, choosing Properties, going to the 
>> Permissions tab, and making changes.
>>     (Why should there *be* permissions trouble with a file or folder, 
>> belonging to user btth on one machine, burned to CD by that user, 
>
> Assumption, you burned the file to the CD with out putting it into an 
> archive file, i.e., you did not use tar or zip.
> When you copied the files you (or the GUI file mangler) told it to 
> keep the permissions it had on the source media, and a CD is _ALWAYS_ 
> read only if you are not using UDF(??), so the files at the 
> destination are read only.
>
> use tar or zip to create an archive of multiple files which then goes 
> on the CD|DVD|USBdrive which you move around, it will give you less 
> surprises.
> or learn to use `chmod u+w -R my_moved_dir`
>
>> inserted into another machine, then dragged and dropped by the same 
>> user into some folder belonging to that user?? Is this yet another 
>> betise of SELinux?? It didn't use to happen.)
>>
>>     Anyway, I applied the same method to the padlock-littered firefox 
>> folders in my user's .mozilla -- several times, from the firefox 
>> folder itself on down -- and the various installs of firefox on F8 
>> and F9 did at least start launching better than before.
>>
> <SNIP>
>
>
I am running Fedora 9 / KDE 4.1 and I have no problems with Firefox on 
any of my computers. Maybe your OS is corrupted?