265794 - Link in Bookmarks Toolbar to Automounted SMB File Causes Very Long Startup Delay If SMB Mount Not Available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273198

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[John Desmond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) http://www.bigtubresort.ca
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)   [Firefox 1.0PR]

I installed firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz on my Red Hat 9
system, upgrading from 0.8.
My wife's Windows laptop has a directory that I access with an automounted
smbmount. Any attempt to access the directory causes automount to kick off.
Today I noticed that Firefox took almost a minute to load. I traced it to
several links to files in the Windows share.
Whenever Firefox loads, or if those links are moved within the bookmark
structure, automount kick off. This results in a small (about 1 sec.) delay on load.
Unfortunately, if the laptop is off the delay is on the order of a minute and
the desktop can't be used. Only the clock is moving.
I moved back to 0.8 to verify that automount doesn't kick off on load or when
those bookmarks are twiddled.
The workaround is to place those automount links in a subdirectory of Personal
Toolbar Folder (Bookmarks Toolbar).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assuming you have an automount file system set up, drag a link to a file in
that system from the URL bar to the bookmark bar.
2. Make the file system unavailable.
3. Close and reopen Firefox. Watch /var/log/messages to see automount messages.
Firefox will seem to hang for a minute or so.

Actual Results:  
Firefox startup delays until a timeout occurs. Automount has many failed retries.

Expected Results:  
As with 0.8, Firefox should open immediately without 'exercising' the bookmarks.

Comment 1

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273198 ***