404838 - Freezes for ~5 seconds when deleting the default "News" bookmark folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 429379

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

Firefox 3 beta 1, Mac OS X 10.5, MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo, 1.83 GHz, 2GB RAM

STR:

1. Fresh profile
2. Open bookmarks
3. Select "News" folder and hit backspace to delete it

Actual result:

Firefox freezes (and gives no feedback; bug 404827) for around 5 seconds.

Expected result:

Either it's quick, or at least some kind of progress information that tells me it's doing something.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

FWIW, just removing 3 bookmarks takes a significant delay.

Comment 3

[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