Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

[stan]

Mike Burger wrote:
>> I'm running Fedora 9 with the Firefox 3 beta.  After start, Firefox
>> reads and writes heavily to the disk (99.99% in iotop) for almost a
>> minute.  Is this known behavior and acceptable or a bug?
>>     
>
> Keeping in mind that Firefox is now out at 3.0 RC2 (though I can't find an
> RPM for it, nor a spec file to allow me to use rpmbuild against the
> downloadable tarball), it may already be fixed.
>
>   
You're right.  I'll wait for the next go around before reporting.  If it 
is still there.