268640 - firefox takes up to 30 seconds to completely shut down

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Hartless]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I shut down firefox, the program's GUI shuts down, but it uses 78-99% of my
CPU for around 30 seconds in the background before it completely shuts down.  Is
this intentional?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Open the task manager so that you can view the processes
3. Close Firefox
4. Look at the task manager and watch the amount of CPU it uses and the time it
takes before it completly shuts down.



Expected Results:  
Shut down immediatly or not use up so much resource while shutting down.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, do you have an enormous amount of cookies or a very large history ?
Firefox will be rewriting these files when it shuts down. When they're located
on network share, that can a very long time. See also bug 74085

Another possibility is that you have a very large download history. Try cleaning
it up (Tool->Downloads).

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

No reply from reporter --> WFM

Please reopen if you can reproduce with a nightly trunk build

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520
Firefox/1.0+