Closed Bug 251254 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Download manager loads slowly with large history list

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161783

People

(Reporter: kenno, Assigned: bugs)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I have installations of firefox 0.8 and 0.9.x on various PCs ranging from
Pentium I to Pentium III, and the download manager consistently needs one or two
seconds to pop up. It's not long, but it's way too much, considering that one
usually is eager to do something with the download. I feel that the download
manager should pop up lightning-fast, even if that involves loading it into
memory when firefox starts up, thereby increasing memory requirements en startup
time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Sorry, I submitted a wrong Build Identifier. It should of course be Firefox/0.8
and Firefox/0.9.x
Update: the cause of the problem was identified as being the huge download
manager history list that accumulates when one puts "Remove files from the
download manager" on "manual" (in my specific case, the list was inherited from
firefox 0.7). I suggested a possible workaround in bug 251337, which would at
the same time be an improvement in general.

Was it appropriate to mark this bug as "dependent on bug 251337", or does that
signify something else?

I'm aware that I've hassled you guys quite a lot these days with download
manager rants, but I really have issues with this feature, and I figured, since
you are unwilling to provide even an option to remove it, better try to do
something about the issues themselves ;-)
Depends on: 251337
Summary: Download manager loads slowly on older computers → Download manager loads slowly with large history list

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161783 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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