Description of problem: firefox on fedora is insanely slow, mainly due to *lots* of default installed (language) plugins. I would prefer a more vanilla firefox. More generally speaking I would like less localisation by default and as in for example opensuse a dialog during installation asking the languages to install and otherwise default to en_US only. All the extra languages and stuff make fedora unneccesarily slow and use up disk space. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox 3 on F9 How reproducible: default install of fedora (live-cd or install dvd) Steps to Reproduce: X 1. X 2. X 3. X Actual results: slow firefox behaviour to the point i replace it with swiftfox without 100s of plugins Expected results: vanilla firefox, fedora tuned for speed. Additional info: X
Sorry, there is no much to say about it, just that there are many reasons why we won't do it. Fedora is proud to support much more languages then others, and I was told by our developers that language packs actually don't take that much space in RAM for us to be it a problem. Consequently, closing as WONTFIX.
Hi, thanks for the reply and I understand the position. I do think t is cool to support a lot of languages but why are they not made *optional* just like the rest of the localisation during install. I mean FF3 on fedora takes +15 seconds to start up for me whereas on my Arch install on the same pc it starts nearly instantly. I hardly can believe that this is something preferred by fedora users or developers that it is So much Slower then comparable systems. I even went as far as deleting all the stuff (plugins / localisations) i did not want, which helped a lot, just to be reinstalled after a later "yum update", which made it sloooow again. thanks again, stefan
Perhaps the language packs could be put into a separate package (or packages)? That way Fedora could still support all those languages, but users could select for only languages that they understand. At the very least, it would knock 11 megs off of the download every time a new version comes out. spoo:/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.1$ du -s . extensions 13944 . 11492 extensions spoo:/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.1$
pdns-recursor-3.1.7-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9