354934 - Absolutely slow and ineffective history management

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223476

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2)

1) In current stable Firefox versions it's almost impossible to view your history sorted "by date and site" if you have more than a month history having visited at least 50-100 webpages a day. When you call Ctrl + H and open old entries, scrolling of this history window is almost impossible and consumes 100% of CPU.

2) If you sort such a large history by site and if you try to delete a given site entries accumulated across many days then Firefox will make a hole in your HDD after rewriting the history.dat file great many times.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

There's an update of the history code planned for Firefox 3.0 (it was removed from the feature list of Firefox 2.0, because the GUI wasn't ready in time).

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Browser_History

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Dupe of / related to bug 223476?

Comment 3

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223476 ***

Comment 4

[Kim Holburn]

Opening history is very slow - takes 20 seconds or more on my system and hanging firefox while it is taking place.  Same for attempting to use the "go" menu.  Firefox 1.5.0.10 and 2.0 on MacOS X 10.4.9 both exhibit the same behaviour.