1381162 - Bookmarks menu is slow to appear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1383758

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

Description

[Eric Huber]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/59.0.3071.109 Chrome/59.0.3071.109 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

(To preface, I have many bookmarks.) When I try to use the Bookmarks menu from the top menu, or click the Show Bookmarks button the toolbar, the popup menu is extremely slow to load. This happens on both Windows and Linux, and has for many versions of Firefox over the past few years.


Actual results:

Clicking the Bookmarks top menu or the "Show your bookmarks" toolbar button temporarily freezes the interface for several seconds while the bookmark popup loads. However, the Bookmarks sidebar and the Library window appear instantly.


Expected results:

The popup should load instantly, or otherwise, there should be some way to prevent this from happening by accident. I think there could be an option in about:config to prevent the actual bookmarks popup from populating at all, as a workaround.

I always use the search bar, sidebar, or library window to access my bookmarks, so I would be fine with removing the toolbar button to avoid any accidental clicks, but it is attached to the star button. In addition, it's possible to inadvertently mouseover the Bookmarks top menu. Whatever the technical problem that causes the popup to load slowly, since the popup with flyout menus is an aging interface metaphor, it seems like this could be phased out anyway.