Bug 500744

Summary:	firefox freezes for ~ 20 seconds when clicking on history
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Martin Jürgens <ma>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Martin Jürgens 2009-05-13 21:30:53 UTC

Description of problem:
When I reboot my PC, start firefox and click on "History", it takes around 20 seconds for the menu to open. In that time, I can't use Firefox.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.5-0.20.beta4.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
My profile dir has a size of ~ 100 MB

Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1e50eadf-5973-4f96-90fe-7bc5b1dc467c

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2009-05-13 21:42:37 UTC

Known issue.

Ensure that firefox is not running, then from your shell:

  cd $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.slt
  cp places.sqlite places.sqlite.backup
  sqlite3 places.sqlite

and from the sqlite prompt:

  sqlite> VACUUM;
  sqlite> .exit

Then restart firefox.

See also
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Storage:Performance#Vacuuming_and_zero-fill
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495957
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352976
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394379
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395020

Comment 2 Martin Jürgens 2009-05-13 21:57:06 UTC

okay.. thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495957 ***