[gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-15 Thread walt 
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:15:34 +0100 (CET)
Peter Weilbacher  wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote:
> 
> > I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year
> > ago and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that
> > code any more, so I stopped using the profile manager.  
> 
> What made you decide that? Are you a manager at Mozilla?
> 
> > Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources.  
> 
> Yes, as a multi-million dollar company they are severely limited...

The limited resources:  skilled programmers who are available and
willing to work for the mozilla foundation.

> > The current developers are working full speed on security updates,
> > which is good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge
> > codebase.  
> 
> Huh? What do you call "bitrot" and what indication for that do you
> see?

Bugs that remain unfixed for years (literally).  Years ago I filed
several bug reports at bugzilla.mozilla.org.  Most of them were
confirmed by bug testers as real bugs, but most were never fixed by the
developers.

Then I got busy with other software projects (like gentoo) and stopped
filing bugs at mozilla.  The gentoo bugs I report actually get fixed
most of the time and I've learned a lot from the follow-up comments.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher 
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, walt wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:38:45 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>
> > When I start one of my firefox profile (even in "-save-mode")

That would be "-safe-mode" by the way, with an "f".

> I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year ago
> and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that code
> any more, so I stopped using the profile manager.

What made you decide that? Are you a manager at Mozilla?

> Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources.

Yes, as a multi-million dollar company they are severely limited...

> The current developers are working full speed on security updates,
> which is good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge codebase.

Huh? What do you call "bitrot" and what indication for that do you see?
   Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-12 Thread walt 
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:38:45 -0700
the...@sys-concept.com wrote:

> When I start one of my firefox profile (even in "-save-mode") it uses
> 100% CPU and is not responding.
> 
> Any way to fix it?

I had a bad problem with the firefox profile manager about a year ago
and I decided that the devs at mozilla are not maintaining that code
any more, so I stopped using the profile manager.

Firefox/mozilla is a very old project with limited resources.  The
current developers are working full speed on security updates, which is
good, but there is a lot of bitrot in their huge codebase.

I think you will continue to have intermittent (maybe even rare)
problems if you continue to use firefox profiles.  (If you use the
profile manager to delete the bad profile you may wind up deleting all
of your profiles, which is exactly what happened to me.)

(You should keep a backup of your ~/.mozilla directory if you continue
to use firefox profiles.)