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Bookmarks export to HTML taking longer

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Okay, apparently it does work, but it's taking exceptionally longer than normal, in spite of it being 65 MB. Doesn't really seem that large, though I wouldn't be surprised if they're in need of massive weeding. Could also be my computer processing things, but there's hardly other processes that are draining nearly anything like Firefox does, so I'm wondering why the process takes so much longer now.

Okay, apparently it does work, but it's taking exceptionally longer than normal, in spite of it being 65 MB. Doesn't really seem that large, though I wouldn't be surprised if they're in need of massive weeding. Could also be my computer processing things, but there's hardly other processes that are draining nearly anything like Firefox does, so I'm wondering why the process takes so much longer now.

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muichimotsu said

in spite of it being 65 MB.

That would depend on how many entries there are. Mine is only 20 megs.

[v57+] Places Maintenance is built into Firefox.

Type about:support<enter> in the address bar.

You will find Places Database near the bottom. Press the Verify Integrity button.

When done, copy and post the results here.

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> Task: checkIntegrity + The places.sqlite database is sane + The favicons.sqlite database is sane > Task: invalidateCaches + The caches have been invalidated > Task: checkCoherence + The database is coherent > Task: expire + Database cleaned up > Task: originFrecencyStats + Recalculated origin frecency stats > Task: vacuum + Initial database size is 61440KiB + The database has been vacuumed + Final database size is 56320KiB > Task: stats + Places.sqlite size is 56320KiB + Favicons.sqlite size is 21504KiB + pragma_user_version is 52 + pragma_page_size is 32768 + pragma_cache_size is -2048 + pragma_journal_mode is wal + pragma_synchronous is 1 + History can store a maximum of 97331 unique pages + Table moz_places has 72689 records + Table moz_historyvisits has 87181 records + Table moz_inputhistory has 189 records + Table moz_hosts has 0 records + Table moz_bookmarks has 132793 records + Table moz_bookmarks_deleted has 0 records + Table moz_keywords has 0 records + Table sqlite_sequence has 0 records + Table moz_anno_attributes has 5 records + Table moz_annos has 2851 records + Table moz_items_annos has 2538 records + Table moz_meta has 8 records + Table sqlite_stat1 has 18 records + Table moz_origins has 7758 records + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_inputhistory_1 + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_hosts_1 + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_bookmarks_deleted_1 + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_keywords_1 + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_anno_attributes_1 + Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_origins_1 + Index moz_places_url_hashindex + Index moz_places_hostindex + Index moz_places_visitcount + Index moz_places_frecencyindex + Index moz_places_lastvisitdateindex + Index moz_places_guid_uniqueindex + Index moz_historyvisits_placedateindex + Index moz_historyvisits_fromindex + Index moz_historyvisits_dateindex + Index moz_bookmarks_itemindex + Index moz_bookmarks_parentindex + Index moz_bookmarks_itemlastmodifiedindex + Index moz_bookmarks_dateaddedindex + Index moz_bookmarks_guid_uniqueindex + Index moz_keywords_placepostdata_uniqueindex + Index moz_annos_placeattributeindex + Index moz_items_annos_itemattributeindex + Index moz_places_originidindex > Task: _refreshUI


As a layperson, I can already see that there's a LOT in my history, though that's not being exported, is it? And there's over 100K entries in bookmarks, so that WOULD explain things. Need to make time and weed it a LOT.

I know you can clear the browser history, but I forget if there's a way to remove individual entries like you can with cookies.

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https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History#w_how-do-i-remove-a-single-website-from-my-history

Remove History For One Site

Open the History Manager <Control><Shift> H. In the search bar, enter the name of the site. Right-click on one of the listings and select Forget About This Site. This should remove all information, including any settings.