Finding it hard to work with Firefox? You might have been hit by a Firefox bug. 215728
This issue even trouble many of our network users as they mount their home directories via NFS and it was really hard for all of them to work with the tabs etc. Firefox gets frozen very quickly or it won’t even load afterwards.
The above bug gave lots of pointers, like I found that Firefox writes into few SQLite flat files for storing the search content, form content etc which in turn results in disk I/O.
As per the above bug status, fix has been released. For me that really didn’t help even after upgrading Firefox to new version. Hence, went ahead and made few changes to Firefox preferences.
a) Security Tab
b) Privacy
Uncheck the above options in both the tabs and check Firefox performance.
By making above changes you have stopped Firefox from writing into urlclassifier3.sqlite and formhistory.sqlite to reduce the disk I/O.
The same fix will help you optimize Firefox for NFS.
