16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
3:49 p.m.
On 4/15/11 9:55 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I think it's just GNOME's Gconf configuration database and the MIME-type
translations getting filled with junk. That and my Firefox user profile
-- I traced part of the slowdown to a misbehaving Firefox extension, and
another part of it to a Greasemonkey script which was forcing refreshes
every couple of minutes.
Firefox becoming constipated certainly shouldn't necessitate an OS
reinstall though, right? If all else fails, just delete the entire
profile from ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profiledir> and all state is gone, yes?
Now I end up wiping and reinstalling Ubuntu (or at
least
obliterating ~/ ) every six months or so.
That's odd; I wonder what's
doing that to you. Also, Firefox really doesn't like it when you have
four windows open,
with ~30 tabs open in each window...
That's really not a big deal for Firefox. I regularly have 3-4x
that, for weeks at a time. I have 3x that right now. It eats a good
bit of memory doing that, but FF4 seems to have improved that somewhat.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL