214785 - Save Image is very slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159107

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mr. Moose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I've noticed that when I position the mouse over a picture and do a "Save Image"
it is painfully slow.  I have a 15k jpg that I was saving and it took 18 seconds
to save, explorer was able to save the same picture in 4 seconds.  Similar
results were seen on other pictures.  It doesn't really matter which web page
you choose, it's equally slow for all.

It also hangs up browser (i.e. I can't click on any other mozilla tabs/windows).
 It might be better if the browser runs the "save as" a separate thread.

I am running on a slower machine at the moment, but it was striking how slow
this op was compared to explorer (when Mozilla seems to work better in most
ways).  This isn't a show-stopper bug, but an efficiency issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.pick an image on the web and do "Save Image As"
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
It took a very long time to save the image to the disk.

Expected Results:  
probably should have been faster.

Comment 1

[Bob Langford]

I have noticed the same thing.  It seems to have gotten worse as time goes on. 
I haven't done any real testing, but it seemed to go fast again today, when I
was saving a file into a directory that had only a couple of files already in
it, instead of the hundreds that are in the directory I have been using.  See if
that makes a difference for you.  If so, it's probably due to OS filesystem
issues, or maybe a fragmented disk.

I'm using the same version of Mozilla, but on Windows XO Pro.

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

Could you please open the download manager and remove all the entries found there?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a duplicate of the downloads.rdf slowness...

Comment 4

[Mr. Moose]

Mozilla is saving files very fast right now.  It had been slow for several
months.  Suddenly it speeded up for no known reason.  I didn't empty the
download manager (now I have nuked the list and keep the list small).  I've been
told that it has nothing to do with it, but when I installed Firebird, Mozilla
immediately speeded up.  It may just be coincidence, but the problem is no
longer present on my machine.  

Go figger.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Shults]

I was seeing this problem on Win XP.  When I emptied the entries
in the download manager, the problem instantly went away.

Perhaps a better description of this bug would be:

  save image is very slow when download manager has many entries.

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159107 ***