Re: F13 Firefox new tab issue

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----- "JD" <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/22/2010 07:24 PM, William Henry was caught red-handed while
> writing::
> > ----- "JD"<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> On 06/22/2010 08:41 AM, William Henry was caught red-handed while
> >> writing::
> >>      
> >>> Is anyone else seeing long delays with using a new tab in Firefox
> on
> >>>        
> >> F13?
> >>      
> >>> Creating a new tab causes that tab to hand for several seconds
> and
> >>>        
> >> even turn grey.  Then trying to use the tab for the first time
> either
> >> by trying to type/paste a URL or entering something in the search
> tab
> >> causes further delay.  Once over those two hurdles it seems to
> work
> >> fine.
> >>      
> >>> Is there some package or patch I'm missing?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -William
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> You might wish to try this: Quit Firefox
> >> Save your existing .mozilla directory, like rename it
> .mozilla.save
> >> restart firefox, and retry opening a new tab.
> >> I am willing to bet it will be just fine.
> >> firefox-3.6.3-4.fc13.i686
> >>      
> > Yep just fine..... as long as I don't care about my bookmarks and
> history and plugins etc.
> >
> > I copied it back. Now is there something else I can do to fix this
> problem? Firefox on F12 didn't have the issue.
> >
> > Perhaps I do need to clean up history and the cache.
> >
> > William
> >
> >    
> >> Cheers,
> >>      
> 
> >> JD
> >>
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> As far as your bookmarks and history, you can go ahead and ccopy them
> over
> from ~/.mozilla.save/firefox/<YourProfile>/
> and copy them into ~/.mozilla.save/firefox/<YourNewProfile>/
> Plugins should usually be installed in /usr/lib/mozilla
> if you have plugins in ~/.mozilla.save/firefox/<YourProfile>/plugins,
> again, you can opy them over to 
> ~/.mozilla.save/firefox/<YourNewProfile>/plugins/
> Besides, most plugins can be re-installed any how.
> If you have added any add-ons, then you will have to add
> them all over again, and that is not a very painful step.

So you understand that I did try it and it did work. But ...

Why should I have to go through all of this on an upgrade? That's not good. I'd prefer to figure out what's wrong between F12 and F13.

William

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> JD
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