Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Luis Villa wrote:
> 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.

I had a brief email exchange with Michael Kaply (of Operator fame) 
yesterday afternoon and he reported a bug, which I've fixed.  I think 
that a side effect of this is that there will be fewer passes made on 
pages.  I also changed the way that page processing is dispatched to 
create fewer threads (I'm not sure where the thread overhead v. 
performance gains really "break even").  You can download the new 
version at 
http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/mozcc/download/mozcc-2.3.9.2.xpi.

I'd be interested in hearing how performance compares to the previous 
release, as well as if the performance is any different between loading 
 a page for the first time v. re-loading the page.

> [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?]

As far as I know it's a firefox-side choice.  I've not seen any way to 
control the enabled/disabled state from the extension code.

NRY

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Nathan R. Yergler
Senior Software Engineer
Creative Commons

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