I have installed Firefox from the ports tree (firefox-45.0.1,1 right now). Recently, I noticed my drive going wild for a few seconds. It seems to hapen every day at the same time. I find it especially strange when I just edit text using a different application. So now, I do
Anybody of you know what might be going on in there? Btw, I disabled the Firefox Send Statistics option so that shouldn't be it (if it really does what it says). What would be a good way to monitor Firefox's activity? Should we run Firefox from a jail?
Thanks!
Dominique.
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to see what is running at those time. I need to do this quickly because this behavior doesn't last very long. I few days ago, I noticed a firefox executable related to flash or something. Tonignt, I saw a find
, then an xz
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. Now, I'm being very concerned. Each time, Firefox was parked on a page I trust (because I wrote it myself). Files changed at the time of the drive scan were all located in the Firefox cache, and I wasn't even using it.Anybody of you know what might be going on in there? Btw, I disabled the Firefox Send Statistics option so that shouldn't be it (if it really does what it says). What would be a good way to monitor Firefox's activity? Should we run Firefox from a jail?
Thanks!
Dominique.