377212 - livemarks service should back off on error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

As discussed with Rob, we should fix the livemarks service to actually hit the server less often when an error reoccurs.

Does this need a UI notification if a feed stays unavailable?

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Is this still an issue? Not exactly sure how the code looks right now, nor do I recall whether this was a "ensure that it does .." or a "fix it so that it does".

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Is this a dupe of bug 419832 these days?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

no, not exactly a dupe but depends. Now we are checking less often than before always, with default prefs we check our livemarks every 15 minutes. In case of a fault we set expiration to 10 minutes. So what should actually happen:

- default expiration pref: recheck after 15 minutes
- augmented expiration pref: recheck maximum after 1 hour
- reduced expiration pref: recheck after expiration (10 minutes)

So i suppose this is fixed actually

Strange thing is that the original code for ERROR_EXPIRATION had been checked-in in bug 353434, before this bug was filled, so if there's not some underlying bug it was already working with a 10 minutes pause on error (onStopRequest is setting it).
But surely before bug 419832 we were re-checking our internal list every 5s, a very short timeframe.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

marking wfm per comment 3, but feel free to reopen if something still needs to be done.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv