OneAndOneIs2

Firefox has been driving me crazy at work lately - it kept freezing for a few seconds, then freeing up and carrying on as if nothing happened. It was doing this so often, the fact it was only a few seconds was no help - it was a massive annoyance.

So I found the fix, and here it is:

FF saves session data every ten seconds by default - all the tabs that you have open, your history, etc. Hence a problem in the process gives you a problem every ten seconds.

Quitting Firefox and deleting all the sessionfiles in your profile gives you a clean sheet to work with, and (for me at least) stops the lockups.

You can also look at changing the frequency at which FF saves session data, by going into about:config and altering browser.sessionstore.interval - this is in milliseconds, so 10000 means 10 seconds.

It's sad that Firefox, once my favourite browser & renowned for being small, fast and high-quality is suffering from so many problems lately. But at least it's got a good enough FOSS community that bugs like this can be diagnosed and fixed relatively easily.

Plea to Mozilla: Make the focus of the next release just about making FF good again? Please? It was my favourite browser, but I keep thinking about switching to something else because FF constantly does annoying things like freezing and breaking the scroll wheel...