well Jonathan Kamens you are bit lucky :) because i dont see any major changes after doing the same it's still slow On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan Kamens <jik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/1/2012 10:28 AM, David wrote: > > The major of the 'Firefox is slow' problems are caused by misbehaving > themes and extensions and the the 'remnants' that some of them leave in > the configuration files. > > Yes, I'm aware of that, but that doesn't explain why moving my entire > ~/.mozilla/firefox directory out of the way and then moving it back without > changing anything would make the performance problems go away. > > We're not talking about transient issues either. It isn't at all likely that > it was just a coincidence that the problems went away that particular time I > restarted Firefox. As far as I could tell I was seeing them every single > time I used Firefox, no matter what pages I was viewing, for well over a > week, and then they instantly went away when I moved the diretories around > and put them back. > > As unlikely as I think it is, I have to assume that Firefox is keeping some > state somewhere other than in ~/.mozilla/firefox, and moving that directory > out of the way temporarily caused that other state, in whatever other > location it is, to get cleaned up. That theory does seem far-fetched, but I > can't think of a better one. > > jik > > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- Akshay vyas -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
