What is Firefox writing???

[jepinto]

The last two days, I can no longer use Firefox.  Within a minute or two, there is a great deal of hard drive noise, like something being written and written to the hard drive, then the spinning wheel.

I thought it was the hard drive itself-and well may be-but FF is the only program that consistently calls up the behavior.  Ran Disk Warrior, says I'm A OK.  Dumped FF's cache, funnily enough, I now have a folder called Cache.Trash with a subfolder Trash which is empty.

10.3.9 on the Cube, 768 ram, Firefox only program open when it happens.  I'd tell you what Activity Monitor saysif there wasn't so much room on the head of the pin....  

[jepinto]

Stranger and Stranger..... now, upon restart of FF, the Cache.Trash folder is gone, along with the Cache folder, and without meaning to, I cleared the exceptions list, I have it set to accept cookies and keep until I close FF.  

But it is now writing again, and again and again.

[sandbox]

Go to tools, click on "add ons" shut them all off. shut down FF reboot. try again.

[jepinto]

Nope.  Only addons are dictionary, talk back and one other, that now I've Force Quit for the umpteenth time, I can't remember.

[sandbox]

Halfway down the page you'll see some disk usage issues, some related to Google
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

[jepinto]

does this make any sense

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[450] http://www.mozilla.org/js/__utm.js:SyntaxError - Parse error

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

Aug 21 08:36:30 MyCube lookupd[208]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

(event handler):Null value

or this

CODE

Aug 21 03:15:03 MyCube syslogd: restart
Aug 21 03:15:03 MyCube syslogd: hostname changed, "localhost" to "MyCube"
Aug 21 04:45:20 MyCube kernel: disk0s3: I/O error.
Aug 21 04:45:53 MyCube kernel: disk0s3: I/O error.
Aug 21 04:47:37 MyCube last message repeated 4 times
Aug 21 04:51:59 MyCube last message repeated 10 times
Aug 21 05:24:50 MyCube kernel: disk0s3: I/O error.
Aug 21 05:27:42 MyCube last message repeated 6 times
Aug 21 06:23:00 MyCube lookupd[208]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Aug 21 07:23:19 MyCube kernel: disk0s3: I/O error.
Aug 21 07:23:54 MyCube kernel: disk0s3: I/O error.
Aug 21 07:26:05 MyCube last message repeated 5 times
Aug 21 07:34:40 MyCube last message repeated 13 times
Aug 21 08:36:30 MyCube lookupd[208]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local

[jepinto]

Disk Warrior says all is fine.  Disk Utility says all is fine.  Tech Tool says there are bad blocks.

I say....might be time for a new drive, as I'm not trusting this.

[krissel]

The I/O error makes me think TechTool is right.

[jepinto]

See my Swap Meet post.  It's on my wish list.