850661 - Slowing of computer and strange sounds from HDD, when I typing after slash sign (/) in address bar, and only when history is too big (> 20000 records).

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Erondondon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20130307074601

Steps to reproduce:

(I'm using Firefox 17.0.4 esr.)

Typing after slash sign (/) in address bar, when history has more than about 20000 records, and when address bar configured to propose links from history or (and) bookmarks. Non-observance of any of condition described above make all work just fine.

The bug is not depend of any extensions installed (program was reinstalled too).


Actual results:

Slowing of computer and strange sounds from HDD, when I typing after slash sign (/) in address bar. The HDD make strange sound on each symbol, when I type after "/".

I think, it probably happen because of non-optimized query to history database.


Expected results:

Computer should not get slow, and it's HDD should not make this sounds.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

try a full check with this add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

That said, any strange sound from the hard disk is hardly related to software, could be it's near its end-of-life, so worth checking your hardware regardless.

Comment 2

[Erondondon]

My HDD is fine.

I'll try your add-on later.

Comment 3

[Erondondon]

"Component: Untriaged → Bookmarks & History"

I'm sorry, what do you mean?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Erondondon from comment #2)
> My HDD is fine.

via testing with what software and/or diagnostic?


> I'll try your add-on later.

results?