601095 - Bookmarks sidebar search performance

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595530

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[3e2224c2]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100930 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100930 Firefox/4.0b7pre

The bookmarks sidebar search performance is extremely slow, making it almost unusable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Bookmarks sidebar
2.Type anything in the search field
Actual Results:  
Takes various seconds to see the results and it frequently freezes while typing.

Expected Results:  
See results immediately, like the awesome bar search

The places.sqlite database is optimized and the problem does not occur when searching via awesome bar

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Can you please try doing the same search in safe mode? http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Also, how big is your places.sqlite? Do you have many bookmarks, can you guess if tends, hundreds, thousands?

Comment 3

[3e2224c2]

I forgot to mention that I have already tried safe mode. Problem persists.

I have about 2000 bookmarks, but that has never been a problem. The problem also occurs when searching bookmarks with the bookmarks manager, but it doesn't happen when searching with the awesome bar, which indicates is not a problem directly caused by my bookmarks database size. Nevertheless, a clean profile with a few bookmarks doesn't display the same symptom.

Additionally, if I copy my places.sqlite to a clean profile and open it with FF 3.6, it shows the results immediately. There is no performance degradation. If I copy the same places.sqlite to a clean profile of FF 4.07bpre or 4.0b6, the problem happens again. The problem also persist if I import a backup into a clean profile.

Comment 4

[3e2224c2]

I also tried to sync my bookmarks to a clean profile. Problem persists after the sync.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Can I have some spec about your computer? CPU and memory mostly.
My problem with this bug, is that on my Core 2 Duo the search is instant, and I can't really reproduce, so i'm blindly thinking about possible issues.

I could ask you to send me your bookmarks.json by mail (don't attach it here since it has sensible private data), the one that you say that importing it to a new profile reproduces the problem.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

also, which linux distro and version?

Comment 7

[3e2224c2]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can I have some spec about your computer? CPU and memory mostly.
> My problem with this bug, is that on my Core 2 Duo the search is instant, and I
> can't really reproduce, so i'm blindly thinking about possible issues.
> 
> I could ask you to send me your bookmarks.json by mail (don't attach it here
> since it has sensible private data), the one that you say that importing it to
> a new profile reproduces the problem.

I have a Core2 Duo E7500 with 2Gb DDR 2 memory and a nVidia 7300GT. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit with KDE environment. I don't think is a hardware limitation issue, otherwise I would have the same problem with FF 3.6.

I would like to avoid sending my bookmarks. I will make some additional tests to determine if there is any problem in the places.sqlite database.