Closed Bug 127856 Opened 24 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Mozilla with Netscape 6 and Java creates huge bookmark file horks that my profile - uses all system resources

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
mozilla1.2alpha

People

(Reporter: susiew, Assigned: ben_seamonkey)

References

Details

(Keywords: qawanted, regression, Whiteboard: [need info])

Yesterday I suddenly was not able to open any version of Netscape 6.x using the profile I always use without it sucking up all system resources (80-100% of memory) even before the browser had actually opened. I was able to use multiple applications as expected after restarting, until the point of opening Netscape. How I isolated the problem: 1) I created a new profile, and the browser worked. 2) I then noticed my Bookmark file in my original profile was 395,803KB -- insanely huge, right? (A couple hours before the problem occured I had saved a complex bugscape query as a bookmark. Never had previously had problems with this profile.) 3) I renamed this Bookmark file and pasted a fresh Bookmarks file in this profile. Result: The profile opened and the browser works as expected. Replicatable: Always Build: all mozilla/Netscape versions. Let me know if anyone wants a copy of my bookmarks.
Probably a regression of bug 87864. I think I had been using the 2/22 build when this first started happening.
Severity: major → critical
Keywords: regression
Priority: -- → P2
Keywords: nsbeta1
It's alive....the new bookmarks file is now 54,000KB even though I never saved any bookmarks in it. I can't open my profile.
Hmm. I save complex queries all the time using daily builds of NS6 on Win2K, perhaps you're leaving out one or more steps to reproduce?. Can you reproduce this using a new profile? Could you please include the query, and attach the smallest copy of your bookmarks file that exhibits the problem? Claudius, can you reproduce this?
Keywords: qawanted
I need to see the bookmarks file. 1.1 until then.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.1
I gave Ben the bookmarks files. That Bugscape query being the problem was just my guess until I heard it had previously been a bug. However, now that the problem occured on a file that I hadn't touched, aside from the default bookmarks, it doesn't seem like the query is a factor.
I saw this too over the weekend. Netscape 6.2.1 would not startup on my machine (100% CPU utilization; win2k). After some poking around, I found that my bookmarks file had ballooned to 5Mb (from the usual 10k). After ditching the bookmarks file, all was well. I poked around in the bookmarks file a bit and there were thousands of IE Favorites imported bookmarks. It appears as though some code had been recursively importing the IE favorites.
Keywords: mozilla1.0
Ben, this bug really smacks of bug 87864. In reading that bug, it seems like you had a fixed worked up and then backed it out in favor of reinstaing some old code (comment #47 in that bug). Could some cases still not be covered? In the meantime I'll give this a whirl and play w/the IE favorites some.
Good. We need a reproducible case, or at least some evidence that this wasn't one bad build horking bookmarks/profiles. If anyone sees it in a new profile, note it here.
Nav triage team needs info: need reproducible case or evidence of a problem in new profiles on current builds.
Whiteboard: [need info]
FYI I've been using 2002030103 for a couple days now and haven't had any new problems. I *think* I was using the 2/26 build the second time that my bookmark file blew up.
Can anyone repro this using new build/profile? Claudius? Bueller?
nsbeta1- per Nav triage team, ->1.2. please renominate if new data warrants.
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
Target Milestone: mozilla1.1 → mozilla1.2
My bookmarks file is suddenly 291,379K. The problem is I've been switching between 6.1, 6.2.1 and recent builds so have no way to replicate...I have not added any bookmarks though. Is the remedy to only use recent builds?? Let me know if you want the new file. Up until today it was holding steady at 235K
*** Bug 132125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
FWIW, this "bookmark-horking" behavior may (or may not be, who knows?) related to a couple of "unusual" bookmarks I have in my personal toolbar - I did notice that these stopped working shortly before the horkation - I have only seen these Javascripts fail to work with Mozilla, not with NS6. (See Bug 132125 for my symptoms.) The content of these bookmarks is included below - they are modified versions of Google's search button javascript: <DT><A HREF="javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames [i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Enter text to lookup using Dictionary.com. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking Dictionary Search.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term ='+escape(q)" ADD_DATE="956908029" LAST_VISIT="21600" LAST_MODIFIED="21600">Dict.</A> <DT><A HREF="javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames [i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Enter text to search using Google. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking Google Search.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q= '+escape(q)" ADD_DATE="953766337" LAST_VISIT="21600" LAST_MODIFIED="21600">Google</A> <DT><A HREF="javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames [i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Enter or Select URL.',''));if(q)location.href='http://'+(q)" ADD_DATE="953766337" LAST_VISIT="21600" LAST_MODIFIED="21600">GoTo</A> <DT><A HREF="javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i<frames.length;i++){q=frames [i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt('Enter text to lookup using Thesaurus.com. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking Thesaurus.',''));if(q)location.href='http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?con fig=roget&words='+escape(q)" ADD_DATE="956908033" LAST_VISIT="21600" LAST_MODIFIED="21600">Thes.</A>
Blocks: profile-corrupt
FYI I haven't had any new problems recently, using 9.9 builds.
The wonderfully determined folks at DecisionOne have been able to reproduce this bug with the following steps: 1. Install Mozilla 0.9.9 and Netscape 6 on your system 2. Close out of all browsers Note the size of the bookmarks file 3. Launch Mozilla 4. Go to any site that contains java (www.netscape.com for example) and wait for a few minutes 5. Close Mozilla 6. Launch Netscape 6 with the same profile that was used to launch Mozilla in step 3, the welcome to netscape 6 setup page displays 7. Go to any site that contains java Wait a a minute of so.... 8. Close Netscape 6 Note the size of the bookmarks file (should grow) To continue to grow the bookmarks file: 9. Launch Netscape 6, go to java sites for a few minutes and close Netscape 6 Note the size of the bookmarks file (grows..) Open up the bookmarks file in WORD, you'll notice that the all the child links on your homepage/sites you've visited are there at the buttom. 10. To shrink down the size of the bookmarks file, launch Mozilla and then close Mozilla.
renominating. Claudius, Ben, would you please try this and comment?
Keywords: nsbeta1- → nsbeta1
I reproduced this also when doing 6.2.2 testing after trunk build testing- (as did depstein). Our bookmarks grew to 88mb I also used www.refdesk.com as a home page on this system which has a google search that I use often. On one reproduction where bookmarks only grew to 35meg I was able to view - it appears that the bookmarks have repeatedly doubled themselves
Nav triage team: nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
I loged a bug <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133223">133223</a> about 2 weeks ago, I believe it's the same as this one. As I mentioned there, this bug seems related to only Java Plug-in 1.4.0 (at least that's what I heard from Sun person in JavaOne) due to some registration problem with Mozilla 0.99+. I'm surprised that no one here knows about that (possible) cause. Even you try to use 1.3.1 plugin in NS/Mozilla, if you have JRE 1.4.0 installed, you will still have this problem. Someone may try different combinations to see exactly how will this happen.
My bookmarks.html file has suddenly ballooned to 1.35GB! And mozilla is unusable (does not respond to any actions, buttons do not draw completely, activity icon is motionless). If I rename/move bookmarks.html in my profile Mozilla works normally. I have (had) some javascript bookmarklets installed. (modified Google searches, add to dmoz) Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Mozilla Plugins: - Java Plug-in 1.3.1_02 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper), NPOJI600.dll, Java Virtual Machine for Netscape 6.x (installed a month or two ago) - Java Virtual Machine for Netscape 6.x, npqtplugin6.dll (installed 3 days ago) Windows2k, 5.00.2195, service pack 2 Internet Explorer 5.5.4807.2300, 128bit I do not have any versions of Netscape installed. looking at the file with "more" shows many, many, many duplicates. Most of which seem to be IE favourites. IE's "Imported Bookmarks" looks normal.
Blocks: bookmark-loss
No longer blocks: profile-corrupt
Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to ben_seamonkey@hotmail.com
Assignee: bugs → ben_seamonkey
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
the only reproducible testcase here seems to involve using Netscape 6 (and that with Mozilla 0.9.9). don't use Netscape 6. resolving WORKSFORME
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Summary: Huge bookmark file horks my profile - uses all system resources → Mozilla with Netscape 6 and Java creates huge bookmark file horks that my profile - uses all system resources
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