On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:47:18 +1100, Daniel wrote: > Rob wrote: >> Ray_Net <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. >>> could this feature slow firefox. >> >> This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list >> of infected sites at a certain interval, then storing this list >> in a local file. The file is then consulted during browsing. >> >> So there is no extra query to a single server that has to reply before >> a page is shown, like in some competing system. > > Hey, Rob, in your first para, you say that a list is downloaded, so in > your second para, you *must be wrong* when you state there is "no extra > query to a single server that has to reply". > > Of course, this extra wait time will depend on how often SM has to > download the list of infected sites, daily, weekly, whatever.
The Gecko backend downloads the phishing and malware data in "chunks" at a low priority. I think it takes up to a week for the complete tables to be downloaded. After that, any updates are also download in chunks. Back in the Triassic when the safe browsing code was still a separate Google Safe Browsing extension, there was code to do online lookups if the local copies of the databases didn't have information on a particular URL, but that functionality was removed a long time ago. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
