[desktop-discuss] CDE removal ?

[James Andrewartha]

Brian Nitz wrote:
> The intended scope is "JDS" which does include firefox and staroffice.  
> But the original optimization configuation settings for JDS2 were 
> focused on components of the base GNOME desktop.  So more work will need 
> to be done.  Do you have any suggestions for firefox?  Turn off flash 
> animations? reduce the default cache size?  Configuration settings don't 
> exist for all of these and some that do exist aren't yet available to 
> the Java Desktop Configuration Manager.  I intend to gather Sun Ray 
> performance enhancement requests which are not yet configurable into a 
> proposal for the "Gnome lite" project.

Some firefox preferences that are worth investigating (more details at [1]):
browser.cache.memory.capacity
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers [2] [3]

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
[2] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html
[3] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
"One page will on average take 4MB of memory."

-- 
James Andrewartha