31301 - Browser unresponsive while importing IE favorites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 62907

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get a really large favorites list in IE.  I have lots of submenus in my IE 
favorites, along with a bunch of unsorted sites in my root favorites directory.
2. Open mozilla browser.
3. Pull down bookmarks menu, hover over "imported IE favorties" for half a 
second (long enough to make a submenu come up - use another menu to determine 
exactly how long this is).
4. Click in an empty area of the page.  The bookmarks menu doesn't go away 
until it would have finished importing the IE favorites, and the browser is 
generally unresponsive.

I don't know if this is specific to imported bookmarks, or general to large or 
long and unsorted bookmark lists.

This is probably a specific case of bug #30942, mozilla should be more 
responsive while doing slow tasks or while stuck in an infinite loop.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - has performance in this area improved in recent builds of 
Mozilla?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Still takes a long time, still unresponsive while doing it.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Adding perf keyword, confirming.

Gerv

Comment 4

[don]

Move to M20 target milestone.

Comment 5

[don]

Oops.  Should be M21.

Comment 6

[Marko Macek]

I only have the default IE Favorites (< 30 items) and it's very slow (>5 seconds).

It's enough just to mouse-over the "Bookmarks" in the main menu to trigger it.

Unfortunately, the bug 22642 prevents a workaround by deleting the folder (I
don't wan't to mess with favorites).

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

Feel free to filter all this spam into the trashcan by looking for this string 
in the message body: ducksgoquack

Comment 8

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape Nav triage team: this is a Netscape beta stopper.

Comment 9

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

marking mozilla0.9 target milestone

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

pushing out. will provide a means of removing this folder for .9

Comment 11

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Marking nsbeta1-, need to rethink IE Favorites feature, also don't think fix is 
an easy one.

Comment 12

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

OK, this is not really specific to IE favorites. If you bookmark your windows 
directory, the menu for that will likewise take a long time to display as the a 
huge lump of content is built. This is not so much of a bookmarks issue as it 
is a problem with menus. A place where this problem used to be very apparent 
was mail. 

Comment 13

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 14

[Peter Trudelle]

mass-reassign bookmarks & open pref perf bugs from pchen to ben

Comment 15

[Andrew Hagen]

Mozilla now imports IE favorites one time.

This problem still would occur for a large list of IE favorites in a folder.
That makes it a duplicate of another bug. The same problem is occurring for
regular bookmarks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62907 ***