Breezy upgrade -> firefox uses all cpu

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:17:06 +0100
Florence Berbain <fberbain at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> ulrich steffens wrote:
> 
> >have you tried deleting '~/.mozilla/firefox'?
> >it looks like there's some extension or whatever thats causing this.
> >  
> >
> Well I guess that's part of what happens when uninstalling (I did 
> uninstall and reinstall firefox).
> 
> Florence

No, when you uninstall and reinstall firefox your user-specific
settings in ~/mozilla/firefox are not deleted. It might be worth
renaming the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory to something like
~/.mozilla/firefox.old  and starting firefox up from a terminal to see
if the "new" directory it will create on first run works for you.

"Dot files" in your home directory are not removed when you reinstall
an app - which is why normally all your personal settings remain
unchanged. If any of those are a problem (commonly extensions with
firefox) , then you can get odd behaviour, or even a refusal to
start .

 Peter

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