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FF 18.0.1 constant disk activity after 1 minute with no tabs open

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jlholling
jlholling
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FF 18.0.1 on Windows XP SP3. Within 1 minute of starting FF I observe constant and excessive disk activity. I am unable to use any other applications due to the response time.

I have closed all tabs and disabled all plugins. I have just started a FF "reset to factory default", but pop-up window for "Please wait while Firefox cleans up your old data" has been running for 15 minutes.

Any ideas?

FF 18.0.1 on Windows XP SP3. Within 1 minute of starting FF I observe constant and excessive disk activity. I am unable to use any other applications due to the response time. I have closed all tabs and disabled all plugins. I have just started a FF "reset to factory default", but pop-up window for "Please wait while Firefox cleans up your old data" has been running for 15 minutes. Any ideas?

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user633449
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It sounds like you've got some other problems on your computer as well.

Restart your PC, then try the steps at http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx#fbid=6pXkdz7T_94 to try to clean your computer up.

After that, Try to reset Firefox again.

jlholling
jlholling Question owner
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I re-installed FF 18.0.1. So far no problems. Except that I had to delete my profile.ini.

Is there any way to restore my bookmarks?