For the past week or so, my Firefox on Mac OS (10.5.5) has been crawling. Previously, it had periodically done this -- after a while just stopped working, sometimes necessitating a hard reset of the lappy. This did not make me happy. I read a lot of options, and disabled all of my extensions. No love. I uninstalled them all. Nothing. I finally resorted to reinstalling Firefox wholesale. Nothing. What I ended up doing was removing the ~/Library/Application_Support/Firefox directory. Started Firefox, now it works fine. At some point, something in there had become irretrievably horked. The only extensions I've reinstalled are "Firebug":http://www.getfirebug.com/ (which I can't live without), "ColorZilla":http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/, and "MeasureIt":http://www.kevinfreitas.net/extensions/measureit/. ForecastFox has many known issues, so I left it out. I'll probably reinstall WebDeveloper in a few minutes and see what happens. Thankfully, I keep my bookmarks on "delicious":http://del.icio.us, and very little is tied directly to the browser. 2008-10-28T06:54:24Z 520096170 firefox-3-on-mac-os-perfo 1

For the past week or so, my Firefox on Mac OS (10.5.5) has been crawling. Previously, it had periodically done this -- after a while just stopped working, sometimes necessitating a hard reset of the lappy. This did not make me happy.

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