Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
> http://garmahis.com/tips/how-to-speed-up-firefox-by-cleaning-its-databases/ >>> > > There is a neat extension that does the vacuuming at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13878 and can be set to do it periodically for you. -- View this message in context: http:

Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Mail Lists
On 01/04/2010 06:58 PM, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: Thank you for the suggestions ... its fascinating and helpful ... But what kind of silly (add adjective to please) design necessitates that the user of the program defrag databases .. thunder

Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 15:45 -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: >> > I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming >> > unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes b

Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
I found that the Vacuum was much more effective if I did Tools -> Clear Recent History first. Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-l

Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Wayne Feick
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 15:45 -0700, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: > > I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming > > unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes back after a while, but > > then does it again. I tried w

Re: firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Reid Rivenburgh
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Wayne Feick wrote: > I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming > unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes back after a while, but > then does it again. I tried web searching and found some recommendations > about turning off "Bl

firefox disk IO

2010-01-04 Thread Wayne Feick
I've been having a lot of problems with firefox periodically becoming unusable while it pounds away at my disk. It comes back after a while, but then does it again. I tried web searching and found some recommendations about turning off "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries