325171 - Initial startup time is teh sux0rs.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P1)

Description

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

The first time you start a places build there's this seems-like 30 second lockup. We need to figure this out before we can turn places on.

Comment 1

[Brett Wilson]

*** Bug 327114 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

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

brett's ongoing optimization work will continue in a2. 

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Suggest user be informed by one or more of the following:
* an information message issued at start of initial build 
* progress at specific intervals or steps in the process

Without such messages, a user may think FF is hung.

My initial startup took several minutes for a 2meg bookmarks file and a 1 meg history file (not sure why that's so big, and no doubt Bug 327000 is a factor).

Comment 4

[Brett Wilson]

I think Brian is working on startup time. Most of the time seems to be taken by history import.

Comment 5

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

This looks to be mostly handled now. 

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv