906652 - Password manager freezes when deleting large amount of passwords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1239657

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 ID:20130818004007 CSet: b4b0dd527993

With a large amount of stored passwords in the password manager, Firefox will freeze for a couple of seconds when a selection is getting deleted inside the manager with the 'Remove' button.

Step:
1. Build up a long list of stored passwords
2. Open the password manager
3. Select all passwords in the listbox
4. Click the 'Remove' button

Firefox will freeze for a couple of seconds. Here you can find the profile with the Gecko profiler add-on. Sadly it does not work with all recent versions of Firefox so I had to use version 17ESR.

http://people.mozilla.com/~bgirard/cleopatra/#report=49c8016371e5c555c89a149725b9fd1fb101a6af

The issue can still be reproduced with a recent Nightly build.

Comment 1

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Avoid using ESR + AMO extension. Instead use these instructions next time:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Performance/Profiling_with_the_Built-in_Profiler#Running_the_profiler

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Well, I installed the add-on from https://github.com/bgirard/Gecko-Profiler-Addon/raw/master/geckoprofiler.xpi but it does not work for me with any version of Firefox except 17 ESR.

We might clarify it on IRC if there is something I could help with to get this fixed.

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Forward duping since there's already a diagnosis in bug 1239657