Weird Firefox performance issue

[Akshay Vyas]

Hi

Jonathan Kamens

i am facing the same problems with firefox 12.0 in fedora 16 x86_64 it
takes more then
10 seconds to open and more then 5 secs to open a new tab

well i didn't tried anything fix it yet but i will also try to do the same hope
it will fix some issues

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> 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?
>
>  jik
>
>
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Akshay vyas