621935 - Searching in bookmarks or history shouldn't block the whole browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 595530

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek [:mgol]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13

Searching in bookmarks or history blocks the whole browser which makes user experience extremely annoying. I consider it a critical issue as sometimes the browser blocks so strongly that the only solution is to kill the Firefox process so this could lead to data loss.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the history button in the Navigation Toolbar
2. Search for a short word
Actual Results:  
The browser locks for a long time

Expected Results:  
The browser shouldn't be locked even for a fraction of second, search should be done in a separate thread and it shouldn't block the whole browser.

Comment 1

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek [:mgol]]

Attachment: about:buildconfig for my Ubuntu 10.04 version of Firefox 3.6.13

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

calling this a dupe of bug 595530 since that bug is what makes things worst.

Comment 3

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek [:mgol]]

Should it really be a duplicate? Maybe it is indeed the main reason for the browser lock-up but I am suggesting separating the search function by putting it in a separate thread. Fast search could be fast but it will still lock the browser up.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

there are other filed bugs for async queries, so it's just matter of choosing a dupe, but the final result doesn't change.