firefox freezes for a few seconds on cold start

[Rajeev Nair]

When i start firefox, it freezes for a few seconds when loading some site and the hard disk light glows as if its trying to search something .It happens for about 10 seconds on average and it happens every single time i do a cold start ,i.e.start firefox on starting my PC.

regards
rajeev

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

Iam on 64 bit jaunty .I dont have any java plugins loaded as of now.But it happens even if i install icedtea or openjdk.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Do you know what website you are freezing on? Have you tried a new profile yet? You don't have to delete your old profile to test.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Try%20with%20a%20new%20profile

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

I freeze on all websites . Its standard behaviour whenever i start firefox in the day . Iam using the default profile and i dont have any add ons enabled.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you, could you please try starting Firefox in safe mode to see if the crashing still occurs?
firefox -safe-mode

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

Its not a crash . All tabs take a sec or two to switch to. Pictures scroll very slow with jerks.

My system is amd 64 x2 4400 with 1 gb ram.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

What video drivers do you have installed?
Could you please post the output of:
lshw -C video

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

here
*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 module=nvidia

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you, could you please post the results of the following:
apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-71 nvidia-glx-96 nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-glx-180

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!