From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5BA1384B4 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D068D21C0CC; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB13221C080 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx3RT-0006HQ-HS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:46:19 +0100 Received: from 216.240.144.56 ([216.240.144.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:46:19 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.56 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 02:46:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:46:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20151112174611.683e4de8@a6> References: <5643DF95.2030507@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.56 X-Archives-Salt: 0a3e333a-c3af-4979-80eb-584043c010ef X-Archives-Hash: a77b3affff0107cace5fed868d1fe3c7 On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:38:45 -0700 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > When I start one of my firefox profile (even in "-save-mode") it uses > 100% CPU and is not responding. > > Any way to fix it? I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year ago and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that code any more, so I stopped using the profile manager. Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources. The current developers are working full speed on security updates, which is good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge codebase. I think you will continue to have intermittent (maybe even rare) problems if you continue to use firefox profiles. (If you use the profile manager to delete the bad profile you may wind up deleting all of your profiles, which is exactly what happened to me.) (You should keep a backup of your ~/.mozilla directory if you continue to use firefox profiles.)