88948 - Bookmarks Bloat Uncontrollably

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87864

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[jahf]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2001062815

2) Bloated Bookmarks

I don't know what caused this and wasn't successful in reproducing, however I 
have a good example of the result so hopefully that will help.

The procedure for this was copying my bookmarks file from my Netscape 4.76 
installation and importing it into a fresh Mozilla 0.92 installation. Once this 
was done I ran the Bookmark Manager and began to prune my entries (I have 
1,000+ unsorted entries and bookmark manipulation was one of the major reasons 
I installed 0.92). I spent about 2 hours sifting through.

After that time I rebooted and went on to do other stuff for a few hours. I 
went back to Mozilla and noticed it took nearly 5 minutes to load (until then 
Mozilla had been loading in less than 10 seconds). Once loaded Bookmark Manager 
also took that much time to load.

I exported the bookmarks to examine them and noticed that I had 1 section that 
had gone from a 3-bookmark section to 16,000+ duplicates of the same 3 entries. 
Also the section was duplicated in entirety in a different part of the file. If 
you examine the example files given you will see the 2 huge sections by 
searching for "imall", "fatbrain" and "virtualvin", the duplicates repeat those 
3 entries thousands of times in a row.

While writing this up I tried to duplicate by loading the original import file 
but did not get it to reproduce.

I'm guessing something occured that was causing that section to be doubled in 
size each time it was saved. Not 100% positive.

Example 1: Netscape 4.76 original import file (328 KB)
	http://www.ergastulum.com/mozilla/bugs/bookmarks/bugzilla.netscape476.bo
okmarks.html

Example 2: Exported from Moz092 after the duplication occurred (6.02MB)
	http://www.ergastulum.com/mozilla/bugs/bookmarks/bugzilla.broken.bookmar
ks.html

Example 3: Exported from Moz092 after manually editing the bookmarks file from 
example 2 to remove the unwanted bits
	http://www.ergastulum.com/mozilla/bugs/bookmarks/bugzilla.fixed.bookmark
s.html

Example 4: Exported from Moz092 after importing the file from example 3
	http://www.ergastulum.com/mozilla/bugs/bookmarks/bugzilla.reimported.boo
kmarks.html



Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
see description

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Looks like bug 87864.

Comment 2

[Diego Biurrun]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87864 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.