699174 - Firefox 7.0.1 is unresponsive when browsing a local directory with many files.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shlomi Fish]

Attachment: Perl script to populate a directory with many files of random names.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110930012629

Steps to reproduce:

This bug report is an offshoot of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611511 . I prepared a directory under ~/tmp/ with 30,000 files using the attached script (after being called with "30000" as a parameter). 


Actual results:

When browsing it with Firefox, it was unresponsive for many seconds, and afterwards hovering over links did not update the selected part propmptly.




Expected results:

Firefox should have been responsive throughout the entire time.

Comment 1

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I can confirm there is slowdowns when facing directories with this amount of files. I was unable to run attachment 571403 [details] because of missing dependencies, but the following command do the same:

$ touch `seq 1 30000`