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Hi everyone,<br>
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I was seeing really, really poor performance from Firefox. I'm not
sure exactly when it started being a problem, but it was going on
for at least a week and I certainly saw it with Firefox 12 (in F17
x86_64).<br>
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I thought I would try moving my profile out of the way to see if
performance would improve, so I shut down Firefox and moved
~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default somewhere else. But then when I tried
to restart Firefox, it said that it was already running but not
responding. Clearly moving the *.default directory isn't the way to
go.<br>
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So I then put it back where it had been and instead moved all of
~/.mozilla/firefox out of the way. After doing that, I was able to
restart Firefox, and indeed performance was much better.<br>
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Having confirmed that, I deleted the newly created
~/.mozilla/firefox and moved the only one back into place so that I
could try disabling extensions, etc. bit by bit to identify the
culprit. But when I then restarted Firefox, the performance problems
were gone!<br>
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In short, somehow moving either ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default or
~/.mozilla/firefox out of the way temporarily and then putting it
back seems to have somehow cured the performance issue. I don't
understand why that might be and think it's rather odd, and I'm not
sure how I'd even begin to bugzilla it. Does anybody have any
thoughts? Is anyone else seeing anything like this?<br>
<br>
jik<br>
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