Firefox 3.0 woes

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On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 20:55 +0100, John K Masters wrote: 
> My upgrade to Hardy went very well apart from a couple of minor
> agravations and one major one. The move from FF2 to FF3.
> 
> So I have done away with my Foxmarks and am manually handling any
> changes to bookmarks but, even more of a pain, FF3 is hogging resources
> and slowing down the system considerably.
> 
> Boot up is no worse than before but once logged in FF3 uses approx 66%
> CPU for the first 6-7 minutes making the system totally unresponsive.
> Then at various intervals it does the same, even when I am not surfing
> but just have it open in another workspace. This is extremely annoying.
> 
> My system, although not exactly cutting edge, should be enough to cope:-
> P4 2.8GB, 1GB RAM, NVidia GForce 400 (Yeah, I know its old but I don't
> do a lot of graphics)
> 
> Has anybody had the same problem or is it just me?
> 
Sounds like the problem discussed in these bug reports:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430530
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/215728

I believe a workaround is to disable firefox's malware/phish protection
as described here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/215728/comments/39
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/215728/comments/40

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