Bug#569905: URL completion bogs down after a few months of browsing, with no way to truncate

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:19:08AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.6-2
> 
> After a few months of browsing, when the user attempts to type in a
> location into the location bar, there will be too many helpful guess
> possibilities suggested, and firefox grinds slower and slower... and all
> the while the user is unable to fill in where he wants to go.
> 
> The user quits and starts firefox again, clicking all the buttons he can
> to get rid of all the history he can, but alas, this memory cannot be
> removed.

Even with Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Clear your recent history ?

Mike