Re: Linux 2.6.29

Gene Heskett
2009-03-28T03:55:41Z

On Friday 27 March 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Definitely a difference! 1 for both, here. Deb is a fresh OS install
>>> and fresh homedir, but my F10 has been through many OS and ff config
>>> upgrades over the years.
>>
>> Hmm. I wonder where firefox gets its defaults then.
>>
>> I can well imagine that Debian has a different firefox build, with
>> different defaults. But if your F10 thing also is set to 1, and still
>> shows as "default", then that's odd, considering that mine shows 0.
>>
>> I have 'rpm -q firefox': firefox-3.0.7-1.fc10.x86_64.
>>
>> Is yours a 32-bit one? Maybe it comes with different defaults?
>>
>> And maybe firefox just has a very odd config setup and I don't understand
>> what "default" means at all. Gene says he doesn't have that
>> toolkit.storage.synchronous thing at all.
>
>In my case the toolkit.storage.synchronous is present in both, set to 1
>in Deb and bolded and set to 1 in F10 (firefox-3.0.7-1.fc10.x86_64).
>
>The latter's bold typeface makes me think my F10 FF
>toolkit.storage.synchronous setting is NOT set to the F10 default --
>although I have never heard of this setting, and have certainly not
>manually tweaked it. The only FF setting I manually tweak is cache
>directory.
>
> Jeff

I just let FF update itself to 3.0.8 (from mozilla, not fedora) and there is
no 'toolkit' stuff whatsoever in about:config.

Is this perchance some extension I don't have installed?
>
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