Closed Bug 1677294 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

FF 82.0.3: Firefox becomes unresponsive when deleting a large number of browsing history entries

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Firefox 82
x86_64
Windows 7
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 734643

People

(Reporter: E.Eye, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0

Steps to reproduce:

I had opened the browsing history window and did a search. Then I selected all search results (1500+ entries) and deleted them.

Actual results:

Firefox became totally unresponsive for almost 4 minutes until the deletion process completed. Deleting 300 entries took about 45 seconds. My PC's CPU workload had only been at about 50 - 60%. And memory usage was at about 44 - 51%.

Expected results:

The deletion process should not bring the browser to a halt for such a long time. If I could keep on using the browser while it deletes the entries in the background I would not mind as much. In the past with older Firefox versions I also experienced such kind of slowdowns when deleting a large number of browsing history entries. However, it has never been as bad as it is now with Firefox 82.x. In that regard this version seems to be at least two times as slow as versions from one or two years ago for instance.

OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64

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Component: Untriaged → Bookmarks & History
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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