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[Rolf Leggewie <269188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: nspr (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Extreme slowness, "Firefox is already running" error for >3 users
  launching Firefox in LTSP environment

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  Fix Released
Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “nspr” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Hardy:
  Invalid
Status in “nspr” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

  ---
  Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1
  Firefox 3.0.1
  LTSP Environment
  Various sites, various thin-clients, same server (HP Proliant ML370 G5, 2x dualcore Xeon 1.6GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, 160GB SAS
  ---

  I'll just paste in what seems to be the common problem here amongst 4 of 
  my schools, when there is a full class of ~35 students logging on and 
  trying to launch Firefox (these are all different people sending me 
  e-mails):

  -----
  Just had a class in here and they went on Firefox, it took about 4 
  minutes to get them all on.  First 5 popped up right away then it 
  started to slow down.  Had 3 stations that after everyone was in I had 
  them click on the browser icon and they go right on.
  ---
  Four or five students were able to start working in typingmaster (within 
  Firefox).  For the rest, it told them they were already in Firefox.
  ---
  It took 15 minutes for 20 computers to logon to Firefox.  The first one 
  took 10 seconds, the next 20 seconds, the 6th one to try and come up had 
  the "Already Open" error.  After 20 minutes I went back into 
  Apps/firefox with the remaining workstations and all but two went in.  
  Workstations s8, s9 have the error message.
  ---

  Tested Firefox today with a class of 20. About half could get on 1 at 
  a time, the other half froze up the desktop and kids couldn't even 
  logoff Ubuntu.

  -----

  
  After a ton of research for the past 3 days, I've come up with the 
  following potential fixes which have sped things up just a bit, but 
  definitely do not solve the core "Firefox is already running" (and most 
  of the slowness) issues:  http://lns.wikidot.com/firefox3ltspoptimizations

  These are all beefy HP Proliant servers, 2xdualcore Xeon CPUs, 8GB RAM, 
  so horsepower shouldn't be an issue. Gutsy + FF2 worked beautifully, 
  this only started happening at the beginning of this school year, after 
  I had upgraded all servers to Hardy+FF3 over Summer break.

  Reproducible: Always

  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Log 10 different users into separate Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTSP client sessions
  2. Launch Firefox 3 in all user sessions at the same time
  3. 
  Actual Results:  
  Extreme slowness in launching Firefox, random "Firefox is already running"
  error message popping up with users, extremely high CPU usage (30-60% usage on
  2x dualcore Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs) with all running Firefox processes at idle. Some
  users will experience "Starting Firefox" on bottom Gnome panel, and then it
  will disappear (no Firefox gets launched)

  Expected Results:  
  Firefox should launch normally for all users, with minimal CPU usage, and no
  "Firefox is already running" errors popping up.

  Running 'firefox' from a terminal yields no output.

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  "LTSP-Discuss" List thread describing the issue and commented on by others with the same problem:
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=48C04301.6060309%40logicalnetworking.net
  ---
  Also reported upstream, here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453704
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