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Firefox Freezes Computer (/questions/963963)

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Started happening about a week ago. Every 5 min. PC freezes for about 1 min. Task Manager shows Disk going to 100% during freeze. Resource Monitors shows 2 Foxfire files are the resource hogs. First ends in sqlite other ends in sqlite-wal.

Started happening about a week ago. Every 5 min. PC freezes for about 1 min. Task Manager shows Disk going to 100% during freeze. Resource Monitors shows 2 Foxfire files are the resource hogs. First ends in sqlite other ends in sqlite-wal.

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Someone more knowledgeable will no doubt provide an answer. Meanwhile may I ask the full names of the files ?

places.sqlite for instance is the history and bookmarks database. I think sqlite-wal are related working files (Write Ahead Log) but there are also other databases.

Please also paste your troubleshooting information into a post

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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.


Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See "Creating a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem.