[Bug 829262] [NEW] Ctrl+D to bookmark w/tags only causes bookmark menu slowdown

[Alan Jenkins]

Public bug reported:

If you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D to create a new bookmark, it's
filed in the "bookmark menu" folder unless you tell it otherwise.

If you're a heavy bookmark user, this leaves you with hundreds of
entries in the bookmark menu.  (Because you're using _tags_ to keep them
organized, there's no other reason to touch the folder).  The resulting
menu takes 30 seconds to load (the first time it's opened) on my Core2
machine.  That's not very good behavior.

Annoyingly, this is inconsistent.  if you use the mouse to click on the
star instead, it defaults to "unsorted bookmarks", which avoids the
problem.  But I'm a keyboard user, dammit.  The problem is that keyboard
shortcuts are tied to menu items, i.e. the "bookmark this page" item on
the bookmark menu.  So it's logical that this action defaults to the
bookmark menu...

The bookmarking widget doesn't remember the last setting used; there's
apparently no way to set a more appropriate default.


I don't know how to resolve it.  Personally I'd be happy to just switch the default, and add "Unsorted bookmarks" to the bookmark menu, but I suspect it'd annoy some existing users.


That said, the situation is *much* better than when I first noticed this.  I've just been able to fix it by moving 1000 bookmarks over to "Unsorted bookmarks" in under 10 seconds (on a cheapo netbook SSD!).  Previously, the bookmarks manager didn't optimize this case; it basically wasn't able to complete it before I gave up and killed firefox.  The interface for dragging+dropping that many bookmarks is not very good, but at least it seems workable now.


Personally I feel supporting heavy bookmark use should be a long-term aim for Firefox.  Encouraging bookmark use is good for security, and good for privacy/robustness in lessening dependency on search engines.  I guess the problem is that Firefox tries to support  both tags *and* folders.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 19 09:20:48 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer N/A
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin N/A
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-19 (60 days ago)

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty unity-2d

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