[Sage] Sage and Live Bookmarks

[too_much green_tea]

> Live bookmarks are loaded after Firefox starts, so
> they don't slow down startup of the browser!

I guess I should've been more precise. 

I have the Sage sidebar enabled at all times. Since
Firefox retrieves all the live bookmarks when the tree
appears, that retrieval time goes towards my startup
time. 

The slowdown was caused by retrieving all the feeds at
the same time, plus the additional time it requires to
process them. The trigger of the slowdown was
displaying the Sage sidebar that contains all
"feedurl". In any cases, I'm now curious in how big a
difference there is. So I did a test.

There're 355 feeds in my folder (I know I've said
around 100 before. I guess I made a mistake because I
only actively scan around 100 of them everyday.) With
only one of them as "feedurl", my startup time for
Firefox is 13secs (maybe faster on your computer -
mine is a few years old.)

But with all the feeds as "feedurl", Firefox's startup
time jumps to 1min 3secs. The private bytes used by
Firefox in each case are 17.4Mb and 25.8Mb
respectively.

I doubt there're anyone who reads all the feeds they
stored everyday. Why waste the time and the bandwidth
to download them all?

> 
> I think it would be a lot more logical for sage to
> add feeds using the "feedurl" attribute instead
> of the "href" attribute. Sage should also consider
> entries with the "hrefattribute as standard
> bookmarks and try to load only bookmarks with the
> "feedurl" attribute.
> 
> This would have two MAJOR benefits:
>   * feeds added through firefox would still be
> considered as readable feeds by Sage, and that the
> feeds added through Sage would be considered as Live
> Bookmarks by Firefox.
>   * Sage could than handle standard bookmarks and
> these could be mixed with the RSS feeds in the
> folder scanned by Sage.  Therefore, you wouldn't
> have to maintain your regular bookmarks under
> Firefox and a specific RSS Feeds folder for Sage !
> Wouldn't it be nice? ;-)
> 
> I really don't see any reason why not to use that
> implementation?? The lack of such feature is the
> only thing that prevents me from using Sage.
> 
> Could explain me how I could change the source code
> and rebuild a firefoxextension behaving that
> way please?? (I already downloaded the source code
> from the CVS repository. I'm using Eclipse 3.1.2)
> Thanks in advance. :-)
> 

Sorry, couldn't help you there. I have never tried
reading the source from the CVS repository. I just
open up their JAR and go from there.

I'm sure the developers are paying attention to the
mailing list, so they might include additional
features in the next version. 

There's also a wiki for features request, among other
things - http://sage.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page

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