On Mon, 15 May 2017, Konstantin Ryabitsev via RT wrote: > On 2017-05-15 14:34:56, francoisvalen...@gmail.com wrote: > > It doesn't work with Firefox-53.0. After quite a long time while > > firefox > > uses 100% of CPU, I finally get a text file and not a gzip file of the > > patch for 4.12-rc1. It was almost instantaneous previously. I don't > > see > > this as a progress. > > Firefox will request a gzip version of the patch, download it and then ungzip > it for you and display it in the browser. If you'd rather not display > that, please use a commandline tool like wget or curl to get the patch.
Yeah, same here: clicking on 4.12-rc2/patch on the kernel.org main page makes Firefox 53 freeze for a few minutes, and then display (!) the text file (85 MB!) in full. Wow. > We are trying to identify who are the people who still need to download > patches as opposed to using git directly, and what their use-case I never use the links on the kernel.org main page to download patches, but still: can those be changed to say ".gz" or something, so that $browser won't _display_ it by default but _download_ it instead? Thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #435: Internet shut down due to maintenance
