[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:15:40 +0000


> 
>That is quite useful. Typical GNOME to make something like this 
>>invisible though.
>>
>>BUT, it still takes 25 seconds to appear! There's some sort of timeout 
>>going on: nothing at all happens for 23 seconds, and then there is about 
>>2 sec of disc/cpu activity. Subsequent times are much faster, until Fx 
>>is restarted.
> 
> 
> Wow, that would be quite unbearable for me.  Do you have any network
> devices bookmarked in your file chooser, or some such?

No. It's the default behaviour on at least 2 fresh installs of Mandriva 
2006. ! Also true in Thunderbird.

> 
> Marius Gedminas

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