From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C27B1384B4 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B04BC21C1B7; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74E6721C13F for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zy4cx-0001TO-DV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:14:23 +0100 Received: from 64.69.39.66 ([64.69.39.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:14:23 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 64.69.39.66 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:14:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:14:14 -0800 Message-ID: <20151115131414.0c780674@a6> References: <5643DF95.2030507@sys-concept.com> <20151112174611.683e4de8@a6> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.69.39.66 X-Archives-Salt: 2682b353-1827-4fea-a3fe-74b30f7ad53b X-Archives-Hash: 959881d1fed93c7fa601c10c3e660cd9 On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:15:34 +0100 (CET) Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote: > > > I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year > > ago and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that > > code any more, so I stopped using the profile manager. > > What made you decide that? Are you a manager at Mozilla? > > > Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources. > > Yes, as a multi-million dollar company they are severely limited... The limited resources: skilled programmers who are available and willing to work for the mozilla foundation. > > The current developers are working full speed on security updates, > > which is good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge > > codebase. > > Huh? What do you call "bitrot" and what indication for that do you > see? Bugs that remain unfixed for years (literally). Years ago I filed several bug reports at bugzilla.mozilla.org. Most of them were confirmed by bug testers as real bugs, but most were never fixed by the developers. Then I got busy with other software projects (like gentoo) and stopped filing bugs at mozilla. The gentoo bugs I report actually get fixed most of the time and I've learned a lot from the follow-up comments.