Do you have a problem with your current bookmarks count or are you looking forward to doubling it (:wink:)?

Do you experience any significant delays (your user name would suggest issues like that)?

Do you keep that many history as well or is only the bookmarks count that high?

I assume that the file size of places.sqlite is quite large and that the compressed .jsonlz4 backup also take considerable space with that much bookmarks.

I see you have anther thread about bookmarks ("Where can I file a feature request"), so I assume that you consider bookmarks important.

These may help you.

Use with Extreme Caution;

Bookmark Duplicate Cleaner {web link} Scans for bookmark duplicates and allows you to delete them

Bookmarks Checker - check for bad links {web link} Check favorites for broken or bad links. It checks for bad links and displays a report if it finds something. Check for 404 links, timeout links.

I notice that you marked our answers as unhelpful.

There is really no absolute answer to this question because it will largely depend on how fast your system is. Firefox will get slower and slower the more bookmarks you have and 127k is a very large amount and likely not tested. Firefox will check the bookmarks to see if the visit count needs to be adjusted and whether to highlight the star on the location/address bar. This will obviously take a lot of time with that many bookmarks (items stored in places.sqlite).

You haven't told us if you suffer from lockups because of this.

Do you really need that much bookmarks as a lot of links do not last that long and pages disappear all the time when a website reorganizes its content or is abandoned (deleted).

Thank you for this response.

I am just thinking of any possiblility, what may cause FF to lock up. I am aware, that my bookmarks may exceed others, even the developer's ideas. I have no idea to make sure, that the reason of my problems may be sheer number of my bookmarks. However you gave me a hint, how FF treats these. So far I could not get any conclusion, because in the taskmanager FF is marked as "inactive", and there is not any disk activity.

Yes, I need so many bookmarks. Bookmarks are keeping an almost complete trace of my interests: They consist of - but not completely - of - Stocks, commodities - investment information - travelling, holidays, nature, science - housing related(maintain, ... gardening - laws, verdicts and related pages - business and investment - newspapers and magazines - videos . health, nutrition, insurance, coocking, .... - Software and and and and dozends of other folders and sub-folders in my bookmark organization (see attatched screenshot)

When I want to search for something, I open my bookmarks and type in my search string. That is really fast and very useful for me.

For this I add an "search string" to the BM, such as "SW_" for "Software". When I enter "SW_" or "SW_ edit" I can fast and efficiently retrieve all my bookmarks related to that search. I do not use the "tag" nor "keyword" feature . I found out, that these features blow up the size of the BM file, so after a while I deleted all my tags *)

Furthermore I am reading rougly 5 newspapers/magazines each day and keep an extensive list of bm of interesting and useful pages. This may add up to 200 to 300 bm per day!

I want to mention something here: I am missing a feature to import bm to a specific position within the bm list. (I use add-on "export in html" - but who knows, how long this add-on may be working? - however imported bm are always at the end of the bm list, and not at any desired position. )

OK, taking your hints into consideration and assessing the bm treatment, I will proceed as following for a week or two: - save the complete bm on disk and backup - keep a few "essential" bookmarks only - continue saving my required/desired bm - exporting and saving them on a daily basis.

Conclusion: When ff continues to freeze/lock out, we can conclude, the my bm file size is not causing this issue.

• ) by hand, because I did not find a useful JSON-Editor...

-> part 2

<part 2> some remarks to my working methods:

I have designed my own local system of "homepages", instead of using bookmarks. First FF starts with openig a set of pages: file:///C:/3_Startseite_ACER.htm|file:///C:/_Zeitungen/_Zeitungen.html|https://startpage.com|about:preferences#general|about:healthreport|about:networking

When I read any news page(opened in a new FF-window), I open an interesting artivle in a new tab. After completion by right mouse click I "add all tabs to bookmarks" into a new bm-folder. Later I manage and rearrange these bm folders into my bm system. I delete FF history (usually), close this window and start with another news page. Maybe I open a new FF window to see a video or another feature; It may happen, that I have 3 or 4 FF windows opened at the same time; however I could not note any relation to that FF lock out/freeze.

Usually I read 3 newspapers. Sometimes I interrupt my reading for a while(10, 15 minutes, 1, 2 or 3 hours); after continuing, the lock out happens. Or sometime, when I want to save the tabs into bm, or even when I want to save a single bm. Throughout the day I may read and treat some other newspapers/magazines the same way.

I have added the pages "FF status report" and "Netzwerkverbindungen/network connections(?)" into my FF startup configuration only for observation purpuses, because I try to find out more hints about this lock out "syndrom" of FF.

Thank you for your attention

It only happened twice to me, that bookmarks were abandonend: when a bank reconfigured their "News" archive and when "Financial times" was closed. In all the other cases at least I could find the article in the new archive link simply by searching (on that home page) for the words of the bookmark itself. *)

This is nothing, what worries me now. I am more worried about a new "Internet" based on "Facebook" or the cease of the traditional internet and a complete transfer to smartphone "technologie" based on apps, not on webpages any longer.

That would be really !"§$%())&( [for me]

-)

• )

remark: If I would have a usefull (JSON-)bookmark-editor, I could easily replace any old link-part to the new one.

I have an idea. Copy your bookmarks to an HTML file, then remove most of what you don't use much from Firefox. You could also remove bookmarks that never change, using the HTML to call when you need them. You will still be able to search this file. Give it a try before deciding.

To open the Bookmarks Manager, press the Alt or F10 key bring up the tool bar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control>(Mac:<Command>) <Shift> B.

Once the window is open, at the top of the page, press the button labeled Import and Backup. Select Export Bookmarks To HTML, and follow the prompts and save it to a HTML file.

See this thread over @ MozillaZine fora. Assuming that is your thread - different OS, Vista over there - but "according to FF Health Report I have 123776 bookmarks" mentioned. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2976035

Thank you, FredMcD

I keep a weekly back up both .JSON and .HTML

I will proceed in such a way, that 1 - I make a complete backup 2 - manage bookmarks in such a way to bring all "unwanted" BMs

  into one folder

3 - export this folder by using add-on "export BM in html" 4 - delete this folder in FF-bookmarks

!!! Warning !!! it seems to me, that this may take days, (weeks or months, hahaha). I found out, that deleting some 100 or 200 Bookmars takes a vera long time! I assume, that FF reorganizes the database after each deletion, which consumes an extraordinary amount of time !!! Btw, can you confirm this?

If so, I would issue another feature request to improve FF!

To edit such a large bm-file in html-format is not very helpful; I tried it allready.

Thank you the-edmeister

I quickly checked your hint. It is very detailed, so I will have to spend some time to go through it

I'll be back....

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file (bookmarks, history) in the Firefox profile folder.

• Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

thank you, cor-el

This add-on is only a tiny little bit strange to me, let me say, I have not the slightest idea, how it works.

I stupid am not familiar at all with the expressions used in this menu. Me stupid also could not find any "user guide"... What can I expect as a result of it's actions/repairs/checks? What happens, if a fault is detected? Presets: that is clear - check integrity (of the database) - Rebuid indices -Expire: What does this mean? Does a bookmark expire? How can I stop expiration? - Check coherence So? - Vacuum Ups, does it "vacuum" my bookmarks, so that the are empty thereafter? - Statistics, well, I will try this first...

OK, statistics done, but how to read it in reagrd to recognize problems? Is there any issue, fault, problem to be recognized?

Well, next "check coherence": Great: "The database is coherent"

Conclusion? Do I need more actions?

So next: "check integrity": Well: "The database is sane"

I stop here, seems ok for me, so far.

-)

Just for the records:

After "reinstalling Bookmarks" it seems, the system behaves a little better. Although FF crashed twice after reinstalment, Nov. 17.

Unless the report shows a problem, don't worry about it. Ever try to read a doctor's report?  ;-)

FredMcD said

I have an idea. Copy your bookmarks to an HTML file, then remove most of what you don't use much from Firefox. You could also remove bookmarks that never change, using the HTML to call when you need them. You will still be able to search this file. Give it a try before deciding. To open the Bookmarks Manager, press the Alt or F10 key bring up the tool bar, and select Bookmarks. Hot key is <Control>(Mac:<Command>) <Shift> B. Once the window is open, at the top of the page, press the button labeled Import and Backup. Select Export Bookmarks To HTML, and follow the prompts and save it to a HTML file.

Thank you for your feedback! I am (more or less regularly) saving my Bookmarks both as JSON and HTML.

However your recommendation does not suit my needs.

Let me explain why. Information management by database gives the user the huge advatage of serching it for any kind of filter. As a result, *all* records which match the filter criteria are selected and presented.

Searching a text file does not give this result.

I want to search my bookmarks press archive(newspapers, magazines..) for, let's say "Snowden" "new york times". As a result, I am presented all my bookmarks, which contain both search strings(5). Searching for "Snowden": 819 Searching for "new york times": 59 entries.

This can never be done by searching a text file.