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Re:The Firefox 3.5 fiasco by owyn on Thursday July 09, 2009 @05:58PM (#696702)
To summarize for those who have less spare time than I:

Some firefox developer had a Very Bad (tm) idea to seed a random number generator by scanning the Windows Temp folders, which is now causing a 30 secs to over a minute pause in start up for a lot of users (particularly those that use IE, which creates a LOT of temp files). Yikes.

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Re:The Firefox 3.5 fiasco by OperaLover on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:20PM (#696743)
At least the good news about the Bad Idea(tm) is that this should be a very small fix for 3.5.x.1 - as opposed to some competing browsers invested development that ignored/contradicted standards, requiring complete re-do's.
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Re:The Firefox 3.5 fiasco by michaelneale on Thursday July 09, 2009 @07:22PM (#696834)
Wow - thanks for the summary. Certainly didn't need wads of text to say that.

Its one of those things "seemed like a good idea at the time, worked well, I feel clever" and then you move on. Then it bites you (or one of your users).

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Re:The Firefox 3.5 fiasco by pj on Friday July 10, 2009 @12:08AM (#697100)
my question is: If you have NO files in any of your temp folders, do you always get the same random number?

Doesn't seem very random to me.

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