Comment 47 for bug 221009

I can confirm this is still occuring with FF 3.5 in Ubuntu on a Thinkpad x200s.

Every new location causes FF to write to disk. lm-profiler clearly shows this. I tried compiling firefox to have:

PRAGMA default_synchronous='0';

after each sqlite3_open() in the code, but I think I screwed something up. I ended up just putting my profile on a tmpfs which solves the problem (but this is not a fix).

I think setting the default_synchronous to zero would solve the problem, though. I'm not sure what additional issues this would cause, but losing my places.sql because my machine crashes is definitely not a concern -- losing my hard disk (and all my data on it) because it's spinning up and down too quickly is :)