Firefox 'issues'

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:27 pm

Something really fucked just happened:

So, i closed firefox and left the comp running whilst i attended to something else for 5 minutes or so, i came back and double clicked firefox (to launch it).

Instead of the usual launching of firefox, i get some small screen about profiles, i try using the profile called 'Default', but it said that it was already in use, even though i had nothing else running. So i created a new one, and clicked ok, now i have firefox without any of my bookmarks, extensions, plugins etc.

Help?

Post by **Foo** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:29 pm

Looks like your profiles folder got fucked by something.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:34 pm

well i think what i should've done before making a new profile was check in processes and end any firefox one.. But not thinking i created a new profile.

So basically i'm asking how to change profiles.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:35 pm

CrinklyArse wrote:Something really fucked just happened:

So, i closed firefox and left the comp running whilst i attended to something else for 5 minutes or so, i came back and double clicked firefox (to launch it).

Instead of the usual launching of firefox, i get some small screen about profiles, i try using the profile called 'Default', but it said that it was already in use, even though i had nothing else running. So i created a new one, and clicked ok, now i have firefox without any of my bookmarks, extensions, plugins etc.

Help?

MORON ALERT!!!...

Post by **Foo** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:35 pm

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:37 pm

Freakaloin wrote:
CrinklyArse wrote:Something really fucked just happened:

So, i closed firefox and left the comp running whilst i attended to something else for 5 minutes or so, i came back and double clicked firefox (to launch it).

Instead of the usual launching of firefox, i get some small screen about profiles, i try using the profile called 'Default', but it said that it was already in use, even though i had nothing else running. So i created a new one, and clicked ok, now i have firefox without any of my bookmarks, extensions, plugins etc.

Help?
MORON ALERT!!!...

fuck u...

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:39 pm

Foo wrote:t&t?

seems like the best option, mod's feel free to move

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:42 pm

Your firefox didn't close properly. You get that profiles screen when you try to launch a second instance. Hit ctrl alt del and make sure no firefox.exe process is running. Then relaunch it and it should work as normal.

EDIT: ok, I didn't read all the posts

just go here

C:\Documents and Settings\yourwindowsusername\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

and delete the new profile you created

Post by **BlueGene** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:43 pm

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

Post by **Fender** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:45 pm

Find and delete your profile's lock. Mine is here:
C:\Documents and Settings\1450220\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\bfiep062.default\parent.lock

Restart firefox.

Post by **CrinklyArse** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:46 pm

haha, i just found that page BlueGene as you posted it, and thanks everyone else for your help

Post by **BlueGene** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:46 pm

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:11 pm

Hey did you try the quick and easy first?

Close the Profile dialog box
Go to taks Manager
Sort by name
End all firefox processes
Re-launch firefox.

Sometimes firefox locks up and does not exd the process, it just lingers in the background locking up your profile, closing this or re-booting will usually fix the problem.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:30 pm

Speaking of FireFox, I'm starting to get a little pissed about its performance.

First, after installing Firefox it runs fine and I don't have any problems. But after using it for just a week or two, it starts taking longer and longer to launch. Firefox at home and at work take about 15 seconds just to load up. 15 seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but for just an internet browser to take that long is a little ridiculous.

Secondly, either Firefox has a memory leak, or it is a massive resource hog. If I leave it running on a machine for a while without touching it, I can expect to come back to have it sucking up tons of my memory. I left it running at home the other morning before I left for work. When I came home, it was using just under a full gig of memory. A GIG. Sure it had several tabs open, but nothing requires that much memory for web page viewing.

WTF? Firefox used to be fast. :icon27:

Post by **4days** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:32 pm

CrinklyArse wrote:haha, i just found that page BlueGene as you posted it, and thanks everyone else for your help

make sure you back up your bookmarks

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:33 pm

yeah I noticed that too, it starts to eat up a buttload of memory the longer it's online..

Post by **BlueGene** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:59 pm

Yeah I think 1.5 has problems, I've seen it eat a lot of memory.

Post by **Fender** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:13 pm

R00k wrote:First, after installing Firefox it runs fine and I don't have any problems. But after using it for just a week or two, it starts taking longer and longer to launch. Firefox at home and at work take about 15 seconds just to load up. 15 seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but for just an internet browser to take that long is a little ridiculous.

Try disabling auto-update. One of your plugins probably moved the server that services auto-update requests. You end up waiting until a timeout happens before firefox is useful. If that works, disable them one-by-one (or binary search) to find which plugin is the culprit.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:19 pm

I'll give it a shot. :icon14:

So you think it's one of the plugins, and not the browser itself, causing the memory leak?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:31 pm

No it's definately the browser itself and/or a mix of it's features. A ton of people usually complain about memory "holes" and whatnot over at mozillazine, check this: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828

But of course according to grudge, YOU NEED MORE RAM OLOLOL

Post by **Fender** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:39 pm

I wasn't talking about the memory leaks, just the load time.

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:43 pm

Load time is usually contributed to an offending extension or two, which the best way of figuring out is to launch ff and disable a few extensions and see if it's still slow to load. If it goes fast again you can re-enable things again.

But firefox does jump to like 200mb+ usage in task manager sometimes, which is kind of odd considering other browsers don't do this. I've mostly seen memory use jump really high if I view a bunch of fullscreen pictures.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:45 pm

Yea, but if I leave it on all day and it works its way up to a gig of memory, that almost definitely points to a leak.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:46 pm

Fender wrote:I wasn't talking about the memory leaks, just the load time.

Gotcha, I'll see if one of my plugins/extensions is causing the slow load times.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:01 pm

R00k wrote:Yea, but if I leave it on all day and it works its way up to a gig of memory, that almost definitely points to a leak.

FF has had the unaddressed leak issue for quite some time now. i was hoping 1.5 would have solved some of the bloat, but in fact, it's worse now. i had two tabs open for <2 hours the other day and it was using around 250MB. no excuse for that.

oh, and don't blame extensions because i only have adblock.

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