Indefinite Spinning Beach Ball Whenever Choosing "Bookmarks" At Top Menu Using A OSX 10.5.8 G5 (PowerMac7,2)
The subject header pretty much covers my issue, which can last up to 5-10 minutes before stopping, but who has that much time to wait??
I am forced to use Command "D" to save the bookmark I want, or use the sidebar, but can't always remember to do this, so must do a force quit whenever I click "Bookmarks"at the top menu.
I've had this issue for the past 3 TenFourFox updates, and I hope that if enough users have this issue on the same G5 Power Mac (Dual Ghz using 4 GB DDR SDRAM),, it will be addressed sooner than later. FYI, I use "Cocktail" frequently to clear my caches, but this has never helped-Thanks.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 15 Mar, 2016 03:29 AM
It won't be addressed if I can't reproduce it on a test system, which I can't. This sounds like corrupted bookmarks.
2 Posted by DKW on 15 Mar, 2016 06:16 AM
3 Posted by funtoosh on 15 Mar, 2016 10:37 AM
D. K., I have a similar issue with one particular bookmarks folder, that is rather big (more than 500 entries). Whenever I hover this folder in the menu, TFF becomes unresponsive for a while. My guess is that it has to do with TFF having to load lots of favicons...?
Cheers, -f
Support Staff 4 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 15 Mar, 2016 02:00 PM
That is certainly another explanation (and yes, loading the favicons is the reason; the menu is constructed dynamically). Organizing the bookmarks into folders will help since the browser has to load fewer icons to display each submenu.
DK, if you press Shift-Command-B, the bookmarks window will open and you can organize them (since it also has to load them, this may be subject to the same delay). If it does open and you can view them, then it's just a matter of too many present. If this doesn't work, you will have to start over. See "How to reset your profile" (the second set of instructions, since we're trying to clear the bookmarks list, which is likely not easily salvageable).
DK, please disable your mail robot for tenderapp.com. Every reply to this post generates a new ticket which we have to clean up because it replies automatically. The tenderapp bot cannot reply to send the authentication message.
5 Posted by Martin Niggeman... on 16 Mar, 2016 08:53 AM
DK, there's one thing you can try to establish if it really is the
favicon database that is causing your problem: go to about:config,
look for browser.chrome.favicons, set to false, restart TFF. If that
solves your problem, you can consider whether you want to reorganize
your bookmarks/folders, or simply do without the icons.
(Unfortunately, the config setting disables ALL favicons all over the
browser interface, not only in the bookmarks menu.)
Best, -f