349059 - Address book takes 5-6 minutes to open because of large prefs.js file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230580

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Heine Svendsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.5 (20060719)

During the last 4 months the address book has taken longer and longer to open.
Now it's up to 6 minuttes.
I found that the prefs.js file is very large 2 MB, so I deleted half of it (only what seemed to be without importance). Then it only took 10-15 sec to open. I eventually cut it down to around 30 KB and now the address book opens immediately.

Reproducible: Always




The lines, that I took out of the prefs.js does not seem to affect the funtionallity of Thunderbird in any way.

I deleted most of the lines that goes like:

user_pref("ldap_2.servers._nonascii_992.filename", "_nonascii_992.mab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers._nonascii_992.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers._nonascii_992.uri", "moz-abldapdirectory://_nonascii_992.mab");

and also most of the lines that goes like:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.user_directory_1000.filename", "user_directory_1000.mab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.user_directory_1000.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.user_directory_1000.uri", "moz-abldapdirectory://user_directory_1000.mab");

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The "growth" problem has been fixed in time for Thunderbird 2.0 by bug 230580. Therefore this is a duplicate of that bug.

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