linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:56:38 +0000
From:	Zid Null <zidsoft@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

2009/3/28 Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>:
> 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).

I compiled my own firefox under gentoo, not present.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2009 mozilla.org

> 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
>
>
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