384129 - FF very slow post on many form fields

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[walter56]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4

FF very slow post on many form fields. See sample-Source here: http://www.ubuntuusers.de/paste/11652/?format=txt

IE is very fast in posting the data. But in FF it takes a Long time. Tested on many Clients. Same Problem on every Client.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get source html code http://www.ubuntuusers.de/paste/11652/?format=txt
2. click on button at the bottom.
3. and wait still die alert message comes. the post takes a long time on FF, but very fast on IE

Comment 1

[walter56]

If i set "browser.formfill.enable=false". The FF is fast like the IE. But we need the Feature "formfill".

Is there any other solution?

Comment 2

[walter56]

the formhistory.dat is about 10 MB.

Comment 3

[walter56]

The Problem is still alive. Is the nobody who can reproduce it?
its a performance bug

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Your original http://www.ubuntuusers.de example is gone now. If you can reproduce this in Firefox 3, please attach a testcase here and reopen.