332673 - address book takes 1 minute to load

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230580

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Address book takes 1 minute to load and show its contents. it contains about 2000 items divided into categories. it probably contains chars as à è ì ò ù - or similar. i can upload .mabs somewhere if required.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch thunderbird
2. launch address book

Actual Results:  
thunderbird freezes waiting the address book

Expected Results:  
loads instantly

PC is an AMD XP2000+ 512MB DDR400 80GB hdd

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

i solved the problem. it was not the address book but it was the prefs.js... i had imported many addresses from outlook express address book some month ago... i have checked now and the prefs.js was bigger than 1MB!!!
it was full of calls to LDAP non_ascii mab files, removing all the ldap calls the file size was reduced to 9KB and now the address book opens instantly!

i have already the old prefs.js if you're interested

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

problem is here again, not solved

my steps:
- close thunderbird, remove all ldap non-ascii.mdb references in it (prefs.js was about 900KB)
- now cleaned prefs.js is 10KB
- restart thunderbird
- close thunderbird, prefs.js is 10KB, yet
- restart thunderbird
- open address book
- close thunderbird
- prefs.js is now about 27KB
and so on it continously grow up...


here is forum link to discuss the problem:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=400888

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away 10-21 August)]

Attachment: my old 1MB prefs.js

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Now I've seen the prefs.js, I can say for sure that this is the same problem as per bug 230580. Its just in this case you seem to have got an extreme amount of redundant prefs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230580 ***