Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

[Dale]

Davyd McColl wrote:
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> On January 3, 2019 12:29:34 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 02/01/2019 22:45, Dale wrote:
>>>> I changed some USE flags.  I figure that is one thing that would make
>>>> Firefox different from say the average user who just downloads Firefox
>>>> from the website.
>>> Is there a reason you don't want to try the firefox-bin package I
>>> meantion in my previous post?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> That will be if I can't get a source build to work.  Thing is, I won't
>> be surprised if it does the same thing.  I suspect this is a bug related
>> to some permission issue or something related to it within Firefox
>> itself.  I've wondered if I should allow Firefox to store the files in
>> its own download directory and then move them after it is completed.  I
>> may try that as well. 
>>
>> Long term tho, I do prefer building from source.  It's sort of why I
>> like Gentoo.  ;-)  It's on the list of options tho.  It would eliminate
>> any local build configs too.  It is a good idea to at least test it.  I
>> may try that next.  If it still does it, it isn't me for sure.  It's
>> Firefox itself. 
> I agree it's a good idea to try the bin. Also perhaps to try to to
> back to as vanilla USE flags as possible. IIRC, my only deviances from
> the default USE flags are to disable pulseaudio and enable clang
> (though that was only recently after the announcement about how it was
> supposed to improve performance so much, and was to become the
> mozilla-preferred method).
>
> Fortunately, at least Firefox builds relatively quickly, unlike
> chromium (~40 min vs ~2.5h on my machine).

Yea, it is a good idea.  Thing is, my network is busy right now.  I'm on
a video download binge again.  -_O

Question.  Just what is clang?  I did a eix for it but its description
is minimal and not to informative, if one doesn't already know what it
is.  If you know, what does it add to Firefox and briefly how does it do
it?  The reason I ask, could that help with my current issue?  I'm all
for Firefox being faster, even on this pretty fast rig, but I'd also
give it a try as well if it would fix this issue and as a bonus make
Firefox work better/faster/whatever as well. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)