1442365 - History: deleting of a selection of 10.000 entries extremely slow, about 2 items per second

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 734643

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[dermoench42]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180130172505

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to remove all entries pointing to an invalid domain from chronik. Therefore I searches the domain, in the list window marked all ([ctrl]+[a]) and hit [del].
The Window showed something about 11.000 entries and Firefox got in medtation state. some seconds later the 'script busy' message appears...




Actual results:

... i clicked continue and after  some seconds the message reappeared...

After a few rounds like this I killed Firefox and looked again to the chronik. A few hundreds entries less of that domain. I calculated the speed, the result of  deletion speed is about 2 or 3 items per second.


Expected results:

Deletion of a few thousand entries should be done within a second or less compared to similar processes.

Even if the deletion takes some seconds, the main Window should respond and should be usable to work on.

Maybe related: 
1. no mozilla account for syncing configured
2. running on an i5 6600K on gentoo linux (somehow fast enough)