what on earth is firefox up to?

[David Timms]

On 01/07/12 13:58, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 22:17 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>       4. Bookmarked RSS feeds that it's going to visit and fetch updates
>          from.
>       5. Even just a large collection of static page bookmarks seem to
>          bog it down.

It would be interesting to see what net traffic is requested/received 
during startup. Stopping all other net apps (updates, etc), starting 
wireshark capturing, and then starting firefox, could give a good clue.