[Bug 289233] [NEW] Firefox makes heavy use of the hard drive for a few moments

[Gannin]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Every now and then, once per session (as in, once per boot), when I'm
using Firefox 3.0 it'll slow way down while the hard drive gets heavy
usage for about 10 seconds or so and then it'll stop and everything will
return to normal.  This doesn't happen with Firefox 2.  This used to
happen with the Firefox 3 Beta which is why at the time I used Firefox 2
instead of the Firefox 3 Beta, and even though it's not in beta anymore,
it's still happening now.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 25 11:41:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Firefox makes heavy use of the hard drive for a few moments
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