firefox is regularly dying

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 10:43:06 UTC 2009


>> > > i dont find firefox slow an i have a AMD6000+ Cpu, infact i find
>> > > firefox faster in Fedora11 than i did in Fedora10 an i do have 2
>> > > extensions an a few themes in it. but whatever your comfortable
>> > > with use it,
>> >
>> >   i would *love* to find out why FF performance is so awful for
>> > me. if anyone has any suggestions, i'm willing to try them.
>>
>> Try using a new profile by moving .mozilla to .mozilla-back .
>
>  i've tried that before with not much success, but i just tried it
> again and the CPU usage of FF does drop somewhat to around 75-80%.
> response is noticeably better but that's still a lot of CPU.

you can also vacuum the sqlite DBs and I've found that can help FF
perf quite a bit. I run the following script when FF is not running.

#/bin/bash
for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done


Peter




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