Managed to put my finger on the pattern. Had something to do with stored passwords. Tried to import stored passwords with Chromium and the same thing happened. It's probably a corrupted sqlite file. :-(
Moved away the firefox folder in .mozilla and the problem went away. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1692330 Title: firefox hangs using 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1692330/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs