Since I installed SeaMonkey 2.0 on my PC (Windows XP) and then upgraded
to 2.0.1, I've noticed a significant increase in the size of my backups.
Part of this increase results from the elimination of any option not to
install the mail/news component of SeaMonkey; previously (e.g., for
1.1.18), I always omitted that component. However, part of the growth
appears to be in other aspects of SeaMonkey.
Today, I did the following comparison between SeaMonkey 1.1.18 and
SeaMonkey 2.0.1:
1.1.18 2.0.1
Program Folder 24.6 MB 37.1 MB
Most-Used Profile 1.1 MB 10.0 MB
For 1.1.18, I had installed the Mnenhy extension, which I did NOT
install for 2.0.1. Otherwise the extensions are the same, except where
newer versions were required for SeaMonkey 2.0.
I noticed that my most-used profile in 2.0.1 contains four files each of
which exceeds 1 MB in size. The largest file in the corresponding
1.1.18 profile was 240 KB.
Not only does the larger footprint of SeaMonkey 2.0.1 generate larger
backups, the backups take longer as does switching profiles. The delay
in switching profiles while SeaMonkey reads 10 MB might be the cause of
the loss in focus reported in bug #525611. (See
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525611>.)
Would it be possible for future development of SeaMonkey to reduce the
application's footprint? While disc space is not yet an issue -- I'm
using less than 25% of the available space on my software hard drive --
the time to read SeaMonkey files is becoming noticeable.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
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