Closed Bug 2005154 Opened 11 months ago Closed 11 months ago

Firefox hangs on macos 26 when I open spotlight

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget: Cocoa
Version:
Firefox 146
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2002102

People

(Reporter: davide.maraschio93, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:146.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/146.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open spotlight using MacOs shortcut.
There is a bug closed, 1979283, that looks like is the same thing however, after upgrading to firefox 146.0 the issue is till here.

Actual results:

Firefox completely hangs and I need to wait some minutes for it to recover or quit it forcefully

Expected results:

Nothing, Firefox should keep working

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Cocoa' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Cocoa
Product: Firefox → Core

Could you elaborate on roughly how many bookmarks you have? Could it be in the thousands? If so, this would be a duplicate of bug 2002102.

Severity: -- → S3
Flags: needinfo?(davide.maraschio93)

Hi Stephen,

So, I clicked on manage bookmarks, then "All Bookmarks" and there I can find 3 sections:

  1. Bookmarks Toolbar
  2. Bookmarks Menu
  3. Other Bookmarks

The first one contains roughly 100 items. The second one contains 10 items. The third one is weird. Here I have the following:

  1. "All bookmarks"
  2. Download
  3. Labels
  4. History

The last one counts 80k elements. However, I don't understand why I have history under "Other bookmarks" and I am not sure if that counts as bookmark

Flags: needinfo?(davide.maraschio93)

I want to add that within "Other Bookmarks" I have "All Bookmarks" and there I have 3 elements named: "(no title)". Each of them contains my entire history (more than 80k elements)

Yes, this would explain it. The bookmark manager does not prevent someone from dragging (intentionally or accidentally) the "History" folder into "Other bookmarks". This means that your browser history will then also appear in the main menu bar, when clicking on Bookmarks. macOS now has a feature that tries to index menu items for apps, and since there are 80k menu items to index in this case, the indexing takes some time.

The easiest fix for you would be to remove the "History" entry from "Other bookmarks". This will prevent the temporary hang. A fix to prevent this from happening outright is being tracked in bug 2002102, so closing as duplicate.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 months ago
Duplicate of bug: 2002102
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

Hi Stephen, thank you very much.
Problem solved!

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