Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>]

On 1/22/07, Nathan R. Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
> Luke Hoersten wrote:
> > I've stopped using FF 2 completely because its so slow on Linux. I
> > have the same problems you are describing, Luis, but with all plugins
> > and FF, not just mozcc. Perhaps this problem is with FF's plugin
> > interface.
> >
>
> I doubt it.  Even if I weren't predisposed to doubt it, it wouldn't fit
> with Luis's experience of degraded performance between versions of
> MozCC: it'd be a consistent (or probably at least linear) degradation
> regardless of which extensions or versions you had installed.  Instead
> it seems more likely that we've changed something that exercises the
> browser in a different way.

Right. I didn't upgrade from 1.5->2.0 this afternoon; I upgraded mozcc.

> Hrm, that's an idea, actually... most of the changes in this update
> happened in the RDFa module.  You can download a build with RDFa
> disabled at
> http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/mozcc/download/mozcc-2.3.9.1-nordfa.xpi.
>   I'd be interested in hearing if that fixes the performance problems
> for anyone experiencing them.

It does not fix the performance problem, for what it is worth. I've
just done a number of re-installs/re-loads and am still seeing the
slow load time. I also noted that I'm seeing a complete firefox UI
freeze while the page is loading.

[Tangent: is it a firefox-side choice that installing a new version of
an addon doesn't also re-enable the addon, or is that up to the author
of the addon?]

Luis