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