431273 - Places should not try to load the entire history in the library

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ryan A. C.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042609 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042609 Minefield/3.0pre

I have about 21000 items in my history, and as you can imagine that takes firefox a good 5-10 seconds to load the history pane on my fairly fast computer with fairly fast disks, this just seems clunky.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Accumulate a year of history
2. History Menu > Show All History
Actual Results:  
Firefox will appear to hang for a few seconds while it pre-populates the history.

Expected Results:  
The history should only be lightly populated, and populate in real time while browsing the history.

The download manager does this already, and it's much nicer. I don't see much use in pre-loading the entire thing, esp considering this problem will only grow as one accumulates more history.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This is probably a duplicate of Bug 417262.

Comment 2

[Ryan A. C.]

This bug isn't about the side bar, this is is in the Library window when you:
1. Click history menu
2. Click show all history

I can certainly see it being related though, since history sidebar > view > By last visited is the same result as the default history view in places.

Comment 3

[Paul J. Weiss]

Is this a duplicate of bug 405254?

Comment 5

[Alex Shim]

27763 items in history collected over 4 months. The "places.sqlite" file is at 16,896KB according to Windows XP. CPU performance spikes for a few seconds slowing usability of Firefox.

Comment 6

[Brian Carpenter [:geeknik]]

I'm not seeing this issue in Build 20090413044519 of Firefox 3.5b4pre.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

behavior changed with bug 422163.

Comment 8

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090414 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre

Comment 9

[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