Weird Firefox performance issue

[Akshay Vyas]

well Jonathan Kamens you are bit lucky  :) because i dont see any
major changes after doing the same it's still slow



On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us> wrote:
> On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote:
>
> The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving
> themes and extensions and the the 'remnants' that some of them leave in
> the configuration files.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that, but that doesn't explain why moving my entire
> ~/.mozilla/firefox directory out of the way and then moving it back without
> changing anything would make the performance problems go away.
>
> We're not talking about transient issues either. It isn't at all likely that
> it was just a coincidence that the problems went away that particular time I
> restarted Firefox. As far as I could tell I was seeing them every single
> time I used Firefox, no matter what pages I was viewing, for well over a
> week, and then they instantly went away when I moved the diretories around
> and put them back.
>
> As unlikely as I think it is, I have to assume that Firefox is keeping some
> state somewhere other than in ~/.mozilla/firefox, and moving that directory
> out of the way temporarily caused that other state, in whatever other
> location it is, to get cleaned up. That theory does seem far-fetched, but I
> can't think of a better one.
>
>   jik
>
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Akshay vyas