its unclear to me if any actual data is being read or written. I don't hear the HDD going crazy, but then, they're a lot quieter than they used to be. and it's unclear what - if anything - those files are doing to hog so much read/write capacity. No viruses were detected, I made a point of scanning with my own scanner and microsoft's downloadable mserc client. whatever those files are doing, they're hogging HDD capacity on the sly. Windows couldn't track it at all - total use was 100% but in every process breakdown I could find the processes weren't cracking 3% usage.
The weird thing is these files were somehow hogging disk capacity on the sly. Those files firefox and deleting those had immediate results. Now this time, I wanted to see what in the profile data was actually causing this, and searching by file-modified-date I found only two files that had been updated recently, beyond the temp file which was removed when I closed firefox: That did the trick, until the issue about a week later after a system update, re-emerged. The only thing that stopped it was a complete wipe of firefox, coupled with completely cleaning out every single file on my system referencing the terms 'mozilla' or 'firefox'. At first I was able to switch to Chrome, but pretty soon 100% disk usage kept creeping any time I made use of the internet. So the system issue has been resolved, as summarized below:īasically, Firefox suddenly - presumably after an update, I wasn't really paying attention - started cranking disk useage to 100% rendering my entire system unuseable. I've seen this issue before for a number of people, and solutions were thin at best.
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