Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:03:43 +0200 Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and for that reason takes long to start. But under sarge this wasn't a problem and other programs too manage to open my home directory in a reasonable time. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that it may be to do with ipv6 support in Mozilla. Try disabling it. Typing 'about:config' in the address bar will get you to the configuration options. You should be able to find the option from there. Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Goesele wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. Very fast :-) This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. No, it's definitely Mozilla related. Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? Konqueror opens (visibly) my home directory for saving - that for the first time takes some time, but for later saving it's much faster than with Mozilla. Saving itself goes very fast. (Very slow for Mozilla etc.) Thanks! Andreas Goesele Perhaps you can edit the Download Preferances in Gecko-Based w/e to download to a differant directory? Try /tmp or even /home/you/download/. If it has to do with your home directory being very large, this may help. Also, perhaps an aptitude reinstall of some of the mozilla/gecko libraries will help? It seems that these are common in all packages: libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxi6 libxrender1 zlib1g - -- Please do not use HTML mail for fully-textual messages. Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net Thinkpad 600: Debian Sarge Sony VAIO PCV-RS 520: Debian Etch -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGH5YmkRdiiE3QqaYRAg66AJ9sddKPBcwWw0BixGyqyTvdVV/URQCcD9EA fwUZlmsnvRMC139wYrAUOc4= =J5xf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Ananda Samaddar wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:03:43 +0200 Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and for that reason takes long to start. But under sarge this wasn't a problem and other programs too manage to open my home directory in a reasonable time. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that it may be to do with ipv6 support in Mozilla. Try disabling it. Typing 'about:config' in the address bar will get you to the configuration options. You should be able to find the option from there. Ananda After about:config Enter type 'dns' in the filter space and choose network.dns.disableIPv6 right click on it and Toggle the value to read: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
macondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ananda Samaddar wrote: I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that it may be to do with ipv6 support in Mozilla. Try disabling it. Typing 'about:config' in the address bar will get you to the configuration options. You should be able to find the option from there. After about:config Enter type 'dns' in the filter space and choose network.dns.disableIPv6 right click on it and Toggle the value to read: true While this tip indeed improved my download speed :-), it didn't change anything about the saving behaviour :-( Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps you can edit the Download Preferances in Gecko-Based w/e to download to a differant directory? Try /tmp or even /home/you/download/. If it has to do with your home directory being very large, this may help. I tried this: But I can't change the download directory by setting it in the preferences, in the prefs.js file or using about:config. Firefox continues to save in the last directory I used, whatever the settings. Very strange that. I can change it by just choosing some other place in the the save as dialog, but I cannot get rid of that dialog (in theory for instance setting Saves files to Desktop should get away with that dialog, but it doesn't). When I change the directory things indeed get fast enough: But this is still a problem, as I prefer to have everything in the same directory. I also wonder, why this suddenly becomes a problem: The Debian sarge Firefox didn't have that problem. Also, perhaps an aptitude reinstall of some of the mozilla/gecko libraries will help? It seems that these are common in all packages: libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libfontconfig1 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxi6 libxrender1 zlib1g I checked those libraries. They seem to be all installed ok and there are no stale libraries laying around, as far as I can see (using ldconfig). Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Andreas Goesele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: I should have written saving a page is incredibly slow. Now it's clear that this only is the case, if the download directory has many files in it. (Other applications manage, so it is still a problem.) But now I'm wondering. Earlier versions of firefox had their own save as dialog - giving for instance the choice whether the just the html page, or the whole page should be saved. But now at least I get something which looks like the standard gnome save as dialog. (I use KDE.) It's three part: Name, Save in Folder, Browse for other folders. No choice of what to save. Is that now for all etch users the case? Or could it be an indication of where lies my problem? Why would this gnome save as dialog considered to be an improvement? Thanks again! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Hi Andreas. Andreas Goesele, 14.04.2007 00:52: Earlier versions of firefox had their own save as dialog - giving for instance the choice whether the just the html page, or the whole page should be saved. But now at least I get something which looks like the standard gnome save as dialog. (I use KDE.) It's three part: Name, Save in Folder, Browse for other folders. No choice of what to save. Is that now for all etch users the case? Or could it be an indication of where lies my problem? Why would this gnome save as dialog considered to be an improvement? You can restore the XUL-based dialog again by setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker in about:config to false. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Hi Mathias! Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can restore the XUL-based dialog again by setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker in about:config to false. That solved my problem. Now saving is *really* fast, even in a large folder! Great. Hope developers will leave us with this choice in future! Thanks a lot! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and for that reason takes long to start. But under sarge this wasn't a problem and other programs too manage to open my home directory in a reasonable time. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and for that reason takes long to start. But under sarge this wasn't a problem and other programs too manage to open my home directory in a reasonable time. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance! Andreas Goesele Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? - -- o) Debian GNU/Linux - Free as in Freedom /\\ http://digital-haze.net/~pobega/ - My Debian site and blog _\_V Window Maker user, Debian enthusiast, Mutt lover -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGHnkZ/o7Q/FCvPe0RAjsZAJsHE1RjFixLvpSIxrFfwx4TFFn3DACfYqBZ cZyy3q0OfuKFP/CBTj24Z7c= =zm9H -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Andreas Goesele wrote: Any suggestions? Close previous iceweasel processes. Start iceweasel without loading any extensions and see if it helps. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. This is one of serveral reasons that I gave up on the geko-based browsers and went to Konqueror. You can use it even if you don't use KDE. There _may_ be a solution but I just needed it to work, so I tried Konk and haven't bothered to try to fix geko. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Close previous iceweasel processes. Start iceweasel without loading any extensions and see if it helps. I tried this, but it didn't help. But thanks anyway! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. Very fast :-) This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. No, it's definitely Mozilla related. Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? Konqueror opens (visibly) my home directory for saving - that for the first time takes some time, but for later saving it's much faster than with Mozilla. Saving itself goes very fast. (Very slow for Mozilla etc.) Thanks! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Augustinus, De doctrina christiana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Goesele wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: Try downloading a large package using wget, and see how fast it goes. Very fast :-) This way we'll know if it's your connection or the Mozilla engine. No, it's definitely Mozilla related. Have you tried it with Konqeuror yet? Konqueror opens (visibly) my home directory for saving - that for the first time takes some time, but for later saving it's much faster than with Mozilla. Saving itself goes very fast. (Very slow for Mozilla etc.) Thanks! Andreas Goesele I have to warn you that some sites don't render well with Konqueror. While overall it is very good, there are some sites that you might need to tell konqueror to identify itself as something else (Tools Change Browser Identification). That will fix the problem most of the time, but not always. Don't purge all of your browsers, keep at least 2 with different engines just in case. BTW, Konqueror is also quite a good file manager. Just a tip. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHp5BiXBCVWpc5J4RAtH8AKCmbYZrW2FyAyNhJFhoM76jGgNBgwCgmcdK Kg9WbI1W2L11YOfnzfurJRw= =ZF2b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
