Firefox beachballs after "clear all history"

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Firefox beachballs after "clear all history"

I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, and if it might be related to Noscript somehow. I'm running Firefox version 8.01 on Leopard. NoScript is version 2.2. I am not running any other extensions or add-ons other than NoScript.

Everytime that I go to the "clear recent history" menu link and clear everything that can be checked Firefox looks like it closes but keeps the menu bar up top. When I scroll over the menu bar, I just get a beach ball. I can force quit Firefox if I go to the finder (but not with the 3 button command). However, here is the strange thing. I can shutdown the Macbook pro, and even after that, Firefox will do the same thing the next time (and only the next time) that I close it. After that, it's fine until I clear everything again.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 27, 2011 1:29 AM

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Klaus1

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Nov 27, 2011 4:45 AM in response to Faris Kalin

You will probably get better advice on the Firefox forum:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

as Firefox is not an Apple product.

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BDAqua

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Nov 27, 2011 10:52 AM in response to Faris Kalin

Does this also beach ball?

Firefox>Preferences>Advanced>Network>Offline Storage... Clear Cache button?

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Faris Kalin Author

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Nov 28, 2011 12:17 AM in response to Klaus1

Thanks. I posted in those mozilla forums as well. I was actually hunting for them, but didn't see the link on the Firefox page.

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Faris Kalin Author

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Nov 28, 2011 2:26 AM in response to BDAqua

Hmm, I just pressed the button you mentioned to clear offline storage cache and immediately got a beachball and firefox is not responding. However, after only about 1 minute or so of waiting, it finished clearing the cache and seems to work fine.

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BDAqua

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Nov 28, 2011 10:37 AM in response to Faris Kalin

Hmmm, how full is the Hard Drive?

Have Console open when you next try to clear anything, see if it gives us any clues.

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Faris Kalin Author

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Nov 29, 2011 3:10 AM in response to BDAqua

It has 114 Gb free on the hard drive.

I tried clearing everything but active logins and cookies (b/c I was logged into a site). Then, instead of immediately quitting Firefox after the dialog box disappeared, I waited till I heard the hard drive stop. This is probably when the cache was fully cleared. I didn't have any beachballs or problems when I quit Firefox.

Then I went to a couple of sites and logged out of the site I was in. I then cleared everything. I waited for a moment. I didn't wait long since the cache was emptied before. I then exited Firefox again. No beachballs.

Thus, maybe it's a problem with exiting firefox before the cache is fully cleared. Thanks for giving me that idea. I think that we may have just come across the solution.

BTW, I've never opened the console before. That's an interesting sort of place. lol

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BDAqua

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Nov 29, 2011 9:44 AM in response to Faris Kalin

Good work, I think you may have solved it ! 🙂

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