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
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
okay.. thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495957 ***