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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 Windo
by owyn 17y ago
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.
- OperaLover 17y agoAt 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.
- michaelneale 17y agoWow - 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).
- pj 17y agomy 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.