Firefox 3 and disk I/O
Experienced with the current Firefox beta 5 : after few weeks, Firefox makes an excessive usage of disk I/O. Before switching back to Firefox 2, I made a quick visit in my Firefox profile directory. The diagnostic has been easy : I found a huge urlclassifier3.sqlite file (about 40MB) refreshed in loop.
A Ubuntu bug deals with this I/O problem with urlclassifier3.sqlite. The workaround seems efficient. I’ve disabled the Firefox checking for attack sites and suspected forgery sites in Preferences/Security and removed the previous urlclassifier3.sqlite.
My Firefox 3 is now as fast as on the first day 