730178 - Extremely long shutdown (30+ minutes) due to Cache.Trash deleting

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Cees T.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/5.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

Steps to reproduce:

After leaving Firefox at the Session Manager selection window for a day or two, i cancelled the select window and got a "/gre/something is slow" alert, which i also cancelled. I then checked my plugins and updated my add-ons while downloading the new less unsafe Flash version, which told me to close Firefox to continue its install.
I closed the only Firefox window (with 3 tabs) using the window close button.


Actual results:

The firefox.exe process did not close. Instead, it spent over 30 minutes agonizing over the 135.696+ files in 2.391+ folders totalling 226+ MiB (654+ MiB on disk!) on my Cache.Trash folder created on 31-01-2012.

After 50 minutes, it appears that the firefox.exe process is finally done deleting the content of my Cache.Trash folder. There is only one folder ("2") left, which i cannot access (not even as Administrator!)

Is a trojan hiding there or what?


Expected results:

Do a single rmdir on the trash folder and recreate it if needed.

Comment 1

[Cees T.]

Application: Firefox 10.0.2 (20120215223356)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

- Add-on Compatibility Reporter 1.1
- BarTab 2.0 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- British English Dictionary 1.19.1 (Disabled)
- CacheViewer 0.6.3 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Compact Menu 2 4.3.1
- Copy Title 1.1
- Download Sort 2.5.8 (Disabled)
- DownloadHelper 4.9.8
- Extension List Dumper 1.15.2
- File Title 1.4
- Firebug 1.9.1 (Disabled)
- Flash and Video Download 1.04.1 (Disabled)
- Flashblock 1.5.15.1
- foxiFrame basic 5.1 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- FoxyProxy Standard 3.5 (Disabled)
- Free Download Manager plugin 1.3.4 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Full Fullscreen 3.4 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- InvisibleHand 3.5.52 (Disabled)
- Mozilla Archive Format 2.0.4
- New Tab JumpStart 0.5a5.4.3
- Nightly Tester Tools 3.2.1.1 (Disabled)
- Personas 1.6.2
- RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin 15.0.0 (Incompatible)
- Secure Login 0.9.9
- Session Manager 0.7.8.1
- Show Go! 1.0.3 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Show the Image 0.7 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Showcase 0.9.5.8 (Disabled)
- Silvermel and Charamel XT 1.4.4 (Disabled)
- Skype Click to Call 5.6.0.8442 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Tab Kit 0.6 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- Test Pilot 1.2
- United States English Spellchecker 5.0.1 (Disabled)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

We have a new cache manager since you reported this.
Do you still ese the problem when using a current version of Firefox?

Comment 3

[Cees T.]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, use Needinfo for questions) from comment #2)
> We have a new cache manager since you reported this.
> Do you still ese the problem when using a current version of Firefox?

I haven't encountered this issue in years, so i think it's been fixed.