Problem with user.js in FF 2.0
Steven Rogers
I had a couple of items in user.js to disable XUL cache and this
seems to be causing some problems in FF 2.0. I'm not sure whether
user.js is a problem, or if it is the particular preference I'm
trying to set:
user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache", true);
but once I set this preference, problems start. The behavior is that
everything seems normal when the browser is launched, but attempting
to open secondary windows like About Firefox, Addons, JS console,
etc. makes CPU usage shoot up and stay up, and the window never
opens (but new browser windows will open, and the browser itself
seems normal, but slow). Once it gets into this state, it stays there
- if you quit and relaunch, it goes straight into 103% CPU usage.
It took me a while to figure out how to fix it once it gets into this
state, but as described here:
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
items from user.js get copied into prefs.js, so to remove them, you
have to remove from both. Once the prefs have been removed from both
files, then things are back to normal. I had to recreate a lot of
profiles to figure that out ;) I am on OS X 10.4.8 G5 PPC.
Anyone else seeing a similar issue? I would just blow it off, but
that's a fairly useful preference to set . . .
Thanks,
SR
Nickolay Ponomarev
>
> I had a couple of items in user.js to disable XUL cache and this
> seems to be causing some problems in FF 2.0. I'm not sure whether
> user.js is a problem, or if it is the particular preference I'm
> trying to set:
>
> user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache", true);
>
Nickolay