Alban’s blog

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

Pour ceux qui ont perdu leur clavier ce matin sous Debian unstable, il s’agirait d’un bug dans hal. Xorg et evdev s’emmèlent les pinceaux et on se retrouve avec un clavier en us. Le workaround proposé consiste à dé-installer (temporairement) xserver-xorg-input-evdev.