Weird Firefox performance issue

[Pedro Francisco]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us> wrote:
> 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.

You have to have the profile directory there otherwise Firefox can't
check if it is open already.
Try something like
~.mozilla/firefox $ for i in *.default ; do mv $i OLD.$i; mkdir $i; done
And you can open Firefox with a clean profile.

Alternatively,
~.mozilla/firefox $ mv profiles.ini OLD.profiles.ini
And then Firefox will think it is being opened for the first time.

Concerning the slowness being gone, maybe it was just luck?

-- 
Pedro