--- toolkit/components/osfile/modules/osfile_unix_front.jsm.ori	2014-08-25 09:17:27.000000000 -0400
+++ toolkit/components/osfile/modules/osfile_unix_front.jsm	2014-10-10 12:18:32.784016950 -0400
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@
        };
 
        // Fortunately, under Linux, that pumping function can be optimized.
-       if (UnixFile.splice) {
+       if (i 0 && UnixFile.splice) { // disabling that feature as of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150082 - tru@centos.org
          const BUFSIZE = 1 << 17;
 
          // An implementation of |pump| using |splice| (for Linux/Android)