Hi. On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 10:00:07AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Hi all, > perhaps someone of you has dealt with this issue and can give me an idea how > can I fix it. > > Since couple of months firefox is taking too long to open a new window or > new page. > When I press "CTRL+n" it opens the window but whole firefox gets blocked > until something happens in the background and then all content is visible > again. > When I start typing the URL same behavior. Not all the time, but mainly > related to new window. > > I use this user profile for approx. 15y and the profile is located on NFS > share. I have 1GB connection to the server. I was thinking maybe that it is > because the sqlite databases grew with the time or there is a race > condition violated.
Well, if it's sqlite databases you're worried about, then install "sqlite3" package, shutdown firefox (important!), and run something like this: for x in $(find .mozilla -name '*sqlite'); do sqlite3 "$x" "VACUUM;" done But I prefer another approach - the only things that's I actually need in Firefox profile are prefs.js file maybe addons. Meaning that yes, I *do not* need history, cookies and all these HTML5 databases that Firefox persistently stores there for reasons unknown. So I just remove anything unneeded from .mozilla/firefox periodically. Reco