Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and saving images taking so long

[Dale]

Billy Wayne McCann wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Well, I found out what was wrong with this thing.  If you go to Tools
>> > Download Manager and look in the window, there is a list of
>> everything I have saved since I started using Seamonkey as my
>> browser.  That was a long time.  I did a ctrl A to select all the
>> downloads and then told it to remove them all from the list.  This
>> thing ran for 15 or 20 minutes at full throttle until I finally gave
>> up and killed Seamonkey.  I then went diggin in the .mozilla
>> directory and found the file where all this is kept.  I made a copy
>> just in case then deleted the file completely.  The file was HUGE.
>> After I deleted that file I went back to some of the sites I got to
>> and downloaded some images and then saved them.  It was nice and fast
>> again.
>>
>> So, the morale of this story is to delete all that crap in the
>> download manager every once in a while before it gets to huge.
>>
>> Thanks Billy Wayne for helping me test this thing.  It got me off to
>> a new start.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)  :-)
>> Hmmm, I wonder if this is a feature or a bug??
>
> Hi Dale,
>
> Glad I could be of some assistance.  I had never tried Seamonkey
> before, so this has given me opportunity to try it out.  It'd be great
> if Firefox plugins (or at least NoScript) worked within Seamonkey.  I
> rather like the "full-featuredness" of this app.  I'll have to research.
>
> In my opinion, it is difficult to imagine how what you've discovered
> could be a feature.  Also, it seems strange that simply having a
> download history (even a large one) within Seamonkey's download
> manager causes such an issue.  I believe the standard protocol in such
> situations is to install the seamonkey-bin to test whether or not the
> -bin exhibits the same behaviour.  If it doesn't, then it is a bug
> that should be filed with Gentoo.  If it does, then it is a bug that
> needs to be filed with Mozilla.  If this is inaccurate, I request
> correction, me being a n00b and all.  :)
>
> Nice to meet you Dale. Happy Gentoo'ing.
>
>
> Billy Wayne

I have had this happen before and I used to remove them regularly to
keep it from slowing me down.  I guess after a recent divorce and some
health issues that I just plain forgot about having to delete the
download history.  I did install the Firefox binary and it did the same
thing as a compiled Seamonkey.  I did make sure to use the same
~/.mozilla directory to make sure everything was the same.  I knew then
that it had to be something on my machine that was causing this. 
Another clue was that it was getting much worse over time even though
Seamonkey had not been changed.  What was happening is that the file was
getting larger and larger and therefore getting slower.

I think it is a bug myself.  It seems to me that there should be a limit
of some kind on this file.  Maybe a time limit, size limit or
something.  Me, I just hate filing bug reports.  I have filed a few but
only after some serious guru
said I should.  I did go search to see if one had been filed but I
didn't see one filed.  Oh, I sort of liked Firefox but I like having one
program do my email and browsing.  So, I have already -C firefox.  :-(

Any thoughts from a serious guru about whether I should file this as a
bug with Seamonkey or not?

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)
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