1630199 - batch removal from history is extremely slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 734643

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ophir LOJKINE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Open the history window (History > Show All history)
• In the search field, type the name of a site you visit often (with a few thousand entries)
• Select all the results
• Right click
• Select “Delete Pages”

Actual results:

the whole browser UI immediately becomes unresponsive (not only the history window)
after some time, the "unresponsive script" popup appears, pointing to "chrome://browser/content/places/controller.js:327"

Expected results:

The selected entries should be deleted

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Resetting severity to default of --.

Comment 2

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Hi there,

I'm trying to replicate this on macOS 14.10 on thhe following versions:

Firefox Nightly version 77.0a1 (2020-04-20) (64-bit)
Beta 76.0b5 (64-bit)
Release 75.0 (64-bit)

I just used https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snaplinksplus/ addon to populate thousands youtube websites in the history, but after performing the search and deleting (1040 youtube entries in my case) it works fine.

Please add an attachment if possible.

See attached video.

Best,

Clara

Comment 3

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Attachment: history.MOV

Comment 4

[Ophir LOJKINE]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to investigate this.

I'm joining an HTML page containing a script that creates many entries in the browser's history (simulating the web app with which I had this issue initially). Just click on the bold number on the page to start creating history entries.

I am also joining a video of me reproducing the bug.

Best,
Ophir

Comment 5

[Ophir LOJKINE]

Attachment: A page that creates a lot of entries in the history

Comment 6

[Ophir LOJKINE]

Attachment: Screen recording demonstrating the issue

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.