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

[Davyd McColl]

On January 3, 2019 8:59:09 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Davyd McColl wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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. 
It's a front-end for llvm (a kind of generic compiler)  - bascially a 
compiler replacement for gcc which has shown good compile times and the 
Mozilla team is claiming fairly reasonable performance gains when compiled 
with clang. It's been around a while, so it's not like you're taking a huge 
chance or anything. It's just not quite as venerable as gcc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>