255429 - Operation slow when Firefox has been installed from a Network Drive

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Clive Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

The installation .exe file was downloaded and stored on a Networked drive. This
file was then executed to install Firefox on the local machine. Accessing
website was then a very slow operation involving huge amounts of network traffic.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click download on the Firefox website
2.Save on a networked drive
3.Open the folder
4.Double-click on the downloaded file to install
Actual Results:  
When using Firefox to browse websites, large volumes of traffic are evident on
the network, and the response is slow.

Expected Results:  
Identical operation to if the software had been installed from a local file.

Uninstalling, copying the downloaded file onto the local machine and
re-installing solved the problem.

Comment 1

[Cignangulo [:cigno]]

Clive - your reported Firefox version(s) are too old a build to analyze bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been fixed already.

Could you please download a recent version or nightly build from <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and then let us know if you still see this problem?

Many thanks, Cigno

Comment 2

[Cignangulo [:cigno]]

Since there has been no reply to comment #1 ==> WORKSFORME. 

The reported Firefox version(s) are too old a build to analyze bugs against now. The problem you are reporting may well have been fixed already.

Could you please download a recent version or nightly build from <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html>, and then let us know if you still see this problem? If so feel free to report back and ask for the bug to be reopened.

Many thanks, Cigno