495685 - Deleting bookmarks (from toolbar overflow?) results in nsPlacesDBFlush.js hang

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

After deleting bookmarks from the drop-down toolbar, continually and randomly receive the following script error, and Firefox promptly crashes:

"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox%203.5%20Beta%204/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js:195"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete bookmarks directly from the drop-down list from the bookmarks toolbar
2.   Deletion is slow and appears to hang up
3. Script error notification appears
Actual Results:  
See above. The following script error will appear:

"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox%203.5%20Beta%204/components/nsPlacesDBFlush.js:195"

Expected Results:  
Firefox crashes. When restart Firefox, bookmarks are deleted, and Firefox operates normally.

Simply delete the bookmarks and proceed with session

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

what do you mean by "Firefox Crashes", do you see the crash reporter? have you submitted a crash? what does happen if you click "continue" till the deleting process finishes?

AFAICT this has same causes as bug 490035.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman on Windows]

See also bug 493731, which also involved a hang in nsPlacesDBFlush.js, and was split into multiple bugs (most of which are now fixed, at least on trunk).

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

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Does this still happen with Firefox 3.6.13 or alter or Firefox 4?

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Does this still happen with Firefox 3.6.13 or alter or Firefox 4?
It certainly won't happen in 4.0 since all that code has been removed.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Might as well as close as WFM then I suppose?