85851 - Bookmarks menu extremely sluggish

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 62907

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[sswift]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703

I just started using Mozilla, and it automatically imported all my bookmarks
from Netscape and IE, but when I click the bookmarks icon or anytime the
booksmarks are displayed really everything slows down to the point where you
can't do anything.  I probably have at least a couple thousand bookmarks.  Just
displaying the quick bookmarks menu is slow, and going into the bookmarks
manager and trying to select hundreds of bookmarks at once to cut and paste them
into a folder doesn't even seem to work.  Scrolling the list is also very slow.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Import thousands of bookmarks
2.Click "bookmarks"
3.

Comment 1

[Claudius Gayle]

out of curiosity, how big is your bookmarks file, in Kb?

Comment 2

[sswift]

It's 867KB.

Comment 3

[Claudius Gayle]

Sorry, should've asked all at one time. What machine and processor?
I'm trying to see if I can setup a similar config and see just how slow.

When pulling down the toplevel menu is it just extremely slow the first time or
every time. Is theer any appreciable speed up? (the 1st time is always a little
slow - it's supposed to get better after that).

Comment 4

[sswift]

Celeron 433, 128 megs of ram.  Not sure what you mean by "machine" it's not a 
Compaq or anything I built it from scratch.

Well I just did a test, and pulling down the bookmarks menu takes approximately 
3-4 seconds the first time I click it, and I'd say a quarter of a second after 
that.  But even a quarter of a second feels sluggish.  Netscape 4.76 on the 
other hand brings up the bookmarks menu instantly.  COme to think of it all of 
the menus in mozilla are kinda sluggish.  The Netscape ones pop up instantly, 
but the mozilla ones seem to take a moment.  If I move my mouse across the menus 
in Netscape, they all open and close really fast, but in Mozilla, some of them 
don't even get a chance to open because they take longer than it take the mouse 
cursor to move across them to open.

Now as for when I manage the bookmarks... it takes consistently around 3 seconds 
to open, and then resizing the window takes one second to occur, and when I move 
the scrollbar it takes the window one second to update each time I move it.  
Scroling down one item at a time with the arrow buttons on the scrollbar seems 
to work okay, but clicking on the scrollbar to move it down one big step at a 
time is as sluggish as moving the scrollbar by dragging it.  This makes it 
really difficult to edit my bookmarks.

Btw, am I correct in assuming that Mozilla is just using the bookmarks file 
which is still in my netscape directory?  Cause I coudln't find a bookmarks file 
in the mozilla directory.

Comment 5

[Claudius Gayle]

confirming. Yes the menu is sluggish. With 867k of bookmarks on a 433 Celeron 
though I don't think that's a surprise to anyone. It's a very general problem.

Waterson, are we tracking (with bugs) bookmarks/XPMenu performance anywhere?

sswift, mozilla migrates your 4.x profile and creates a new one and then no 
longer touches your 4.x profile. Your bookmarks are in C:\windows\Application 
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\<obscure foldername.slt>\bookmarks.html

Comment 6

[Chris Waterson]

Can somebody slap a big bookmarks file in here? I'll profile it.

Comment 7

[Claudius Gayle]

Attachment: large(165k) BM file used in performance testing

Comment 8

[Claudius Gayle]

attached is the BM file i was using in performance testing (I believe) it's 
hideous with a lot of nesting. Linked inthe url field is my 'offical' big 
bookmarks file. It's simply large but a much more 'regular' pattern of nested 
folders.

Comment 9

[Chase Tingley]

Is this bug significantly different from bug 62907?

Comment 10

[Chris Waterson]

This bug looks to be about the bookmarks menu; bug 62907 appears to be specific
to the bookmarks window (which may be improved when Ben does his rdfliner stuff).

Comment 11

[Chris Waterson]

I'm futuring this bug because I'm not going to get to it before mozilla-1.0.

Comment 12

[André Dahlqvist]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 62907.

Comment 13

[André Dahlqvist]

Dupe. Reopen if you feel this is wrong.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62907 ***