Closed Bug 383126 Opened 18 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Firefox 2.0 too chatty with on-disk profile

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

All
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: rees, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070310 Firefox/2.0.0.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070310 Firefox/2.0.0.2 Firefox does not support roaming profiles (see Bug 249343) so I keep my profile on a file server. This worked fine in Firefox 1.5. Starting with Firefox 2.0, this no longer works, because Firefox is far more aggressive about writing to the files. On a gigabit local network it's ok but on a 1 Mbps remote link it's unusable. Using a caching file system such as afs doesn't help, because files are opened, written, and closed, forcing the data back to the server. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put ~/.mozilla on a file server (nfs, afs, or similar) 2. Start Firefox 3. Open multiple tabs and visit popular sites (wired.com, news.google.com, NYT, ... Actual Results: Firefox frequently hangs while data is written synchronously to files in the profile directory. Expected Results: Firefox should not hang. Either reduce disk writes or do them asynchronously. Or implement roaming profiles.
The problem turns out to be sessionstore. Setting "browser.sessionstore.enabled" to false "fixes" it.
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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