what on earth is firefox up to?

[Nataraj]

On 06/30/2012 10:13 PM, David Timms wrote:
> 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.

I think maybe this is caused by the leap second issue.   Try rebooting
and see if it goes away.   See
http://www.google.com/search?ix=acb&sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=leap+second+linux

Nataraj