Firefox 32.0.3 leaves thousands of files in my cache yet I have it set to clear on close.
Since updating to firefox 32.0.3 when I close the browser it leaves hundreds and sometimes thousands of files in my cache. In... Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ath38mvy.default then in 'Cache2' in a folder called 'Doomed'!! Is it being ironic with that name? :-(
I have Ccleaner that cleans junk and it can take many minutes just to clear all this junk.
I have firefox set to clear cache on exit, this has always worked in previous versions but this behaviour is very odd and unexpected and almost seems to be malicious/spyware behaviour.
Please help... I'm just fed up of waiting for the cache to be cleared by Ccleaner.
Thanks.
Firefox's caching system changed recently, so I'm not sure exactly how it works any more, but over the years I have read that when you set Firefox to clear the cache at shutdown, Firefox doesn't even use the cache, so that might explain why whatever was there at the time you changed the setting got stranded and not purged in the normal way.
Regarding firefox.exe remaining in Task Manager: if I let my Firefox session run up past 1.5 GB of memory (Windows gets sluggish) it takes a couple of minutes to fully exit, complete its cleanup, and disappear from the Task Manager. But if yours stalls and never completely shuts down, then there is a problem, perhaps with corrupted files.
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Hi
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Firefox crashes every time I do any of the following. Then I have to force quit Fire fox.
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This is about a question you posted to the Firefox Support forum three months ago (I'm sorry you never got an answer).
Did you ever fix the problem where Firefox freezes or hangs, when clicking a download link or using (File menu) "save as" or "open file"? Or when going to the Firefox (Tools) menu and clicking Options ? Or trying to Import or Export bookmarks?
I found this thread searching for a solution for someone on MozillaZine's support forum who's having a similar issue. See this thread: (maybe something he's tried that didn't work for him will work for you?)
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2382953&start=15
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It lets the user choose any number of files, rename those files sequentially, and move them into a new sub-folder. This process usually takes between 10 and 15 seconds on my "test batch" of 1,500 jpg images.
The problem comes later when I need to separate those images and move them into further sub-folders.
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do shell script "mv" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of theItem & space & quoted form of POSIX path of subFolderAlias
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This process takes significantly longer. Usually many minutes, if it finishes at all (sometimes it just hangs and gives me an error message). I don't understand why. It's actually doing less work...just moving, instead of renaming and moving.
It seems to do okay on smaller numbers of images, even a couple hundred. But once it gets up around 1,000 files it starts to really choke. Is it because it's having to process the files by a certain interval (every other file, or every third file)? What am I missing?or by obtaining POSIX path of files and use each directly in mv(1). The last two approaches are more preferrable because it won't use Finder or System Events in processing each file, e.g., "(_hfs_path) as alias" is processed by AppleScript language itself without using Finder.
Isn't that what I'm doing in the shell...moving the POSIX paths?
do shell script "mv" & space & quoted form of POSIX path of theItem & space "ed form of POSIX path of subFolderAlias
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[GNOME], [Firefox] (still) defaults to GIMP for PDF files
I've installed Arch Linux with GNOME twice this past year, on both i686 and x86-64 systems. Both times, I've installed GNOME with it's default PDF reader, Evince, as well as GIMP for image editing (of course). Firefox, regardless of my preferences in Nautilus, only gives me the option of opening PDF files in GIMP (as opposed to saving them). If I save the file and open it from the downloads window, it opens in GIMP, but if I download it and then open it directly in Nautilus, then it opens in Evince without any problems. Of course, I could work around this and simply add /usr/bin/evince to the list of programs for PDF files, but I would have to do this for every single user that I add before Firefox is reasonably usable for downloading PDFs.
There was a thread on this a while ago, but it's closed now so I can't add to it. This is still a problem in 2011 and before I report this as a bug anywhere, we'd have to figure out the exact cause of the problem: is it GNOME, GIMP, Firefox, or something else entirely that causes this? How could I fix this so I don't have to use a messy workaround?
Oh, also, after installing GIMP, it's treated as the default application for PDF files regardless of GNOME's default preferences. Evince is listed but GIMP "hijacks" it in a sense. This is fixable in Nautilus easily, but it shouldn't have to be a necessary step.
Last edited by Sloshy (2011-02-22 20:24:09)ngoonee wrote:mimeopen would solve the problem. The issue is that firefox just defaults to using xdg-specifications, and gnome isn't really very good about setting that (uses its own gnome-open instead of xdg-open after all).
I never knew that about GNOME. Mimeopen did fix the problem for me. Thanks very much!
tjwoosta wrote:
I dont know if this is what your talking about but..
In firefox go to edit>preferences> applications tab (you can choose which app opens what filetypes)
I mentioned that I tried this and it works fine, but I don't want to have to do that workaround on every single account I make. The workaround suggested, as I said, works well enough.
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Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
*http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-start-windows-in-safe-mode/
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Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.
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*AdwCleaner:<br>http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/<br>http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware:<br>http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner:<br>http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender:<br>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
*Spybot Search & Destroy:<br>http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan:<br>http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:<br>http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware
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