Ubuntu 13.04 Suffers Performance

[Basil Chupin]

On 19/06/13 15:58, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> Indeed there is no such option. I suppose it isn't even related to
>>> NFS and I would possibly see a similar delay, if I had a slow USB
>>> stick mounted (e.g. via USB 1.0). Maybe it is a "feature" of one of
>>> the libraries used by firefox which is more a side effect than
>>> intentional behaviour. At least avidemux-gtk has the same
>>> behaviour. I don't know about other applications because I don't
>>> use too many gtk-applications (I prefer KDE).
>> Do you clear the cache (and possibly history etc) when you shutdown
>> Firefox?
> Yes, I clear the cache but not the history. Do you suggest that a
> startup delay could be caused by an empty cache?

No, just the opposite - the cache would be loaded when you start FF but 
you clear it so this is not a possible cause. However, what about 
History? how big is it?

I have a rather large Bookmarks file and I have noticed that FF takes 
just a bit longer to start nowadays, but it doesn't worry me.

I did read sometime ago that 'to make Firefox leaner and meaner' one 
should clear out the sqlite databases occasionally. The command to do 
this - in console as root, and put command all on the 1 (one) line:

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection.executeSimpleSQL("VACUUM");

BC

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