[Discuss] fiefox and HD thrashing

[pw]

Corey Burger wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 8:28 PM, pw <p.willis at telus.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Recently firefox has been causing my hard disk to start thrashing
>> away. I can't figure out what may have changed.
>>
>> Has anyone had any similar problems with firefox?
> 
> Are you running 3.0 beta?
> Did you add a plugin?
> Did you add an extension?
> Did you add a new set of bookmarks?
> Did you recently install a desktop search tool such as Beagle or Tracker?
> Did your Firefox recently update?
> What distro do you run?
> 
> Corey


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060802 
Mandriva/1.5.0.7-0.1.20060mdk (2006.0) Firefox/1.5.0.7

on Mandriva 2006

No recent updates. I don't use plug-ins or extensions.
No new bookmarks.

The HD starts thrashing and I usually need to try to
close the  browser or open another TTY to kill the process
to get enough response from the PC to do anything.

I may just update distros. It's been long enough.

Peter