firefox3 makes my harddisk running crazily...

sfbi · 2008-04-25 06:04:57

I'm using firefox3b5. It has been good until yesterday.

Now my hard drive begins running terribly with a noise each time after I start firefox3

Nothing to do with flash. Because it happens even when I haven't openned any website. I'm being driven mad...:o

Does anybody have a similar situation? What can I do now?

Last edited by sfbi (2008-04-25 06:07:38)

yagood · 2008-04-25 06:10:18

Same here. It doesn't necessarily happen every time I start Firefox but I've noticed the activity too... I haven't had the time yet to investigate this issue though. I'm using official trunk builds from Mozilla.

Anyway, it would probably be better to ask on Firefox Builds forum: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23

sfbi · 2008-04-25 06:19:18

Thanks. It seems to be a bug. I'll use ff2 these days

Dheart · 2008-04-25 06:24:28

Not that I've ever used firefox, but try clearing your browser cache... It could help.

depp · 2008-04-25 08:02:41

I was just having this issue. After I deleted the ~/.mozilla folder, it seems gone.

mucknert · 2008-04-25 08:29:42

Yeah, I had the same issue. It brought my machine to a screeching halt all the time it happened. Pretty annoying.

finferflu · 2008-04-25 08:45:03

Ah, so it wasn't my imagination only. I was beginning to be suspicious of wmii, but now I understand everything... Bloody Firefox

jordi · 2008-04-25 09:28:35

And I already started to disable/enable various plug ins to see whatever the problem might be.

yagood · 2008-04-25 17:43:46

Apparently, it's a known issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430530

shining · 2008-04-25 20:25:13

Ah so this is triggered when the cache gets too big?
I have been using ff3 for ages but I just started noticing this 3 days ago.
I thought I set it up to automatically clean the cache when closing ff, but I am not sure anymore..
Also, it seemed like my problem only happened after installing vimperator. After disabling the extension, it seemed to work fine, but I wanted it.
So finally I gave up and started from a clean profile, and it has worked fine since then..

toofishes · 2008-04-25 21:32:36

shining wrote:

Ah so this is triggered when the cache gets too big?
I have been using ff3 for ages but I just started noticing this 3 days ago.
I thought I set it up to automatically clean the cache when closing ff, but I am not sure anymore..
Also, it seemed like my problem only happened after installing vimperator. After disabling the extension, it seemed to work fine, but I wanted it.
So finally I gave up and started from a clean profile, and it has worked fine since then..

I don't use vimperator, but it also seems to have started for me about 3 days ago. I wonder if some plugin troubles are kicking in and just happen to be at the same time. Disabling one plugin definitely made a difference for me.

Looks like that bug report someone posted is the exact issue though, so hopefully this gets a fix. It is crazy that the beta was working fine for so long, and then this hit everyone at once. Hopefully this gets a prompt fix because it pretty much f***s your system interactivity over, as well as make the web browsing painful.

shining · 2008-04-26 07:59:34

Just a sum up from the mozilla bug report and threads on ubuntu forums:
It looks like this has to do with the way phishing protection is done in ff3, with a sqlite database.
The huge disk activity happens when that db is updated, you can see it with the creation of that file in firefox profile : urlclassifier3.sqlite-journal
So you can just remove urlclassifier3.sqlite, which should prevent the problem (at least for a while).
Or you can just disable the phishing protection altogether by going in prefs -> security and unticking the two options.
firefox has a test site to see if the protection is working, link can be found in that page : http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ph … rotection/

And so yes, plugins have likely nothing to do with it. They might just delay the update of urlclassifier3.sqlite or something.

toofishes · 2008-04-27 23:19:38

cd ~/.mozilla && find -name urlclassifier3.sqlite -delete

skottish · 2008-04-27 23:35:48

I've been seeing this too and it gets much worse over time. I have had all of the anti-phising stuff turned off. I finally killed the ~./mozilla directory on both of my machines. FF3 is performing well again. But, less than one day into the new start it's happening again. Tis' no good.

--EDIT--

I cleared the cache and I changed it from the default 50MB to 1MB and things seem to be better.

Last edited by skottish (2008-04-28 01:15:15)

serrghi · 2008-04-28 06:48:04

I cleared cache, and problem was gone.

Bapman · 2008-04-30 14:35:51

I'm glad to see this post, I was having doubts about my mental health !

As said before, removing plugins only delayed the problem, it gets back afterwards and gets worse and worse... Clearing cache only works a few days for me (or even a few hours).

Great summary of problem/what to do, shining

Last edited by Bapman (2008-04-30 14:40:38)

shastry · 2008-05-02 17:07:56

Just turn off site checking for now.

Edit -> Preferences -> Security

Uncheck suspected attack site, suspected forgery.

sfbi · 2008-05-04 14:45:05

shastry wrote:

Just turn off site checking for now.
Edit -> Preferences -> Security
Uncheck suspected attack site, suspected forgery.

Oh, this time it works Thanks.

sash · 2008-05-04 21:38:38

sfbi wrote:

shastry wrote:
Just turn off site checking for now.
Edit -> Preferences -> Security
Uncheck suspected attack site, suspected forgery.
Oh, this time it works Thanks.

Thanks, this tip works here as well.

Susu · 2008-05-06 07:30:48

Well, the error occurs in beta 3, too. I'll try the security thing. Hope it will help...

mucknert · 2008-05-06 07:43:24

I tried the workaround, turning off the fraud protection, which seems to fix it.

Susu · 2008-05-06 07:51:29

Yes, indeed.

shining · 2008-05-06 07:58:19

If I read the new comments correctly in mozilla bug report, it should be fixed in nightly snapshot :
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ … est-trunk/
thanks to this patch or an update of it :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430530#c25

so I guess it should be in the next devel release, whatever that is. rc1 maybe if betas are over?

ozar · 2008-05-14 00:54:01

Yikes, I just got a heavy dose of hard disk activity from firefox3 myself and it was causing things to freeze up for a few seconds.

Thanks for the temporary remedy.

skottish · 2008-05-14 01:56:47

shining wrote:

so I guess it should be in the next devel release, whatever that is. rc1 maybe if betas are over?

It is RC 1 and it's (sort of) out. It hasn't hit the main repos yet, but the source can be found here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/f … es/build1/

it's the last 'firefox' listing in the tree. At this phase though it usually only takes a day or two to be released.

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