[Bug 231384] Re: Firefox is extremely slow to respond; starts in about 4 min, gtk-damaged?

[ANDREA]

output of ifconfig: 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:d4:ac:e3:26
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::213:d4ff:feac:e326/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:59558 (58.1 KB)  TX bytes:8517 (8.3 KB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0xe400

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:900 (900.0 B)  TX bytes:900 (900.0 B)

as for the proposed version (rc1) ... no real improvement. it took 16
minutes to load and after exiting the welcome page it is currently yet
again frozen. all extensions got automatically disabled by the upgrade
so that's not really keeping it up that long either. it could be a local
error if so i'd appreciate hints a lot! thank you in advance!!!!

update: 
i've closed firefox as it wouldn't react anymore and i have just eliminated my local profile (~/.mozilla/firefox/) but it's still not loading. on my laptop though it is ... weird. should i try to kdiff3 on installed packages? (i mean do something like sudo dpkg --get-selections > desktop.txt and same for the laptop and compare?) [firefox still isn't up - 4 min later]

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Firefox is extremely slow to respond; starts in about 4 min, gtk-damaged?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231384
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