222051 - Please speed up mozilla -remote

Status: REOPENED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Robin Green]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

Sometimes launching a page from another app with mozilla -remote causes a lot of
paging and a few seconds delay. This gets irritating if you use it a lot. I only
have 128Mb RAM on this system and a lot of stuff running sometimes. Using a FIFO
or something, it should be possible to make mozilla -remote really really fast
and efficiently.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

The startup script in the rpms actually calls the super-lightweight client
program which doesn't have this problem.

Comment 2

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt back Feb 10)]

The search for windows with a WM_STATE atom and amongst those for matching mozilla atoms can take up ~ 0.6 seconds of start up time on my system when there are many windows.  I expect it would be much more for remote connections.

It's probably worth seeing if this can be optimized.

It seems that not all window hierarchies rooted at children of the root window have WM_STATE atoms.  I don't know how much checking every window in these hierarchies contributes to the overall time.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass resolving a bunch of old bugs in the x-remote component in preparation for archiving it. If this bug is still valid and useful, please move it to the "Toolkit: Startup and Profile System" component and reopen it.