On Thursday 04 September 2008 21:20, Jordan Erickson wrote: > 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 over Summer break. > > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm not the only one > having this issue (at least I really hope I'm not). No you are not - see my earlier post! We had to revert to the old version before our reputation was ruined and the cries for Windows grew louder. regards Garry
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