World Firefox Day

kbrosnan writes "Are you a fan of Firefox? Want to spread the word to a friend who hasn't heard of it yet? If you can convince just one person to switch to Firefox before September 15th, you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code."

Comments

Re:Alternative Method

[Threni]

> Hell yea. My idea of celebrating worldfirefox day is getting the HUGE memory leak squashed.

It's not a leak it it's intentional - it's simply huge memory usage.

Re:What's the point?

[vrwarp]

From the FAQ: How will our names be included in Firefox 2? If both you and your friend opt-in to have your names included, we'll add your names to an interactive Firefox friends display that will be accessible from within Firefox 2.

NO Mention of source code

[linuxci]

There's no mention at all on the world Firefox day website that the names will be listed in the source. From what I can see this'll just be a link to a site that lists the names (probably accessible from the 'about' box). So there'll be no bloat to the source, not even as a comment.

Re:NO Mention of source code

[zlogic]

Here's the quote from http://www.worldfirefoxday.com/en/faq.php#q11

"How will our names be included in Firefox 2?

If both you and your friend opt-in to have your names included, we'll add your names to an interactive Firefox friends display that will be accessible from within Firefox 2."

It says interactive so I guess there will be some XUL/AJAX hybrid that displays 10 names at a time, probably with a search function.

On the other hand:

"How do I see the names in Firefox 2?

We're working on the details of this and will share this soon."

Re:self-fulfilling prophesy?

[smokeslikeapoet]

I assume that all the names would be inserted into the code as comments, meaning the names won't be compiled into the binary. I'm not a cvs master or anything but I assume you can exclude the directory that contains the names when you update your source locally.

Re:Alternative Method

[riscthis]

Also the awful start up time !! Even the best IE basher will accept that IE is far better in this case!!!!

Then Firefox Preloader is what you need: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/

If your user account has higher-than-user privileges you can combine this with SysInternals' PsExec to launch Firefox Preloader with limited permissions -- this ensures ensures Firefox will always run with low privs even if it's opened via a hyperlink from another program:

C:\bin\psexec.exe -l -d "C:\Program Files\FirefoxPreloader\FirefoxPreloader.exe"

(I first saw this tip in a blog comment on SysInternals site regarding PsExec and have used it ever since)

Re:Alternative Method

[XchristX]

One way to reduce start-up times is to always keep it in memory using Firefox Quickstarter:

http://mozillaqs.sourceforge.net/

  This chap built quickstarters for both Mozilla & Firefox. Doesn't addres the huge RAM usage, but it does effectively 'speed-up' starting the frontend (which does seem to have a tiny memory footprint, the main footprint is in the runtime environment itself...)