Re: reworked web search

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 16:53:45 +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> > How about not kicking off the fetch for the real image until the default icon
> > fetch completes? It'll introduce a tiny delay but it also probably simplifies
> > the logic.
>
> Actually, its not that simple. the fetch for the default is started as
> part of the serchweb init. The selection of default provider is not
> done untill the frontend sets the provider from the configured
> value. Both gtk and amiga do this when creating the initial browser
> context.
>
> In theory this creation/fetch is way later than the initialisation but
> it seems the cache is now completing http fetches (when cache hits)
> faster than a resource:default.ico fetch started sometime before can
> complete!

Aah well, it was worth a try :-)

D.

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