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Why is the Firefox location bar so slow?

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Mar 15, 20262690 views
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I don't understand, Firefox is a great browser, but the location bar is so slow. It literally was stuck for 30 seconds looking up something in its database. Is there a way to tell it to stop trying to be so smart about matching URLs? (Edit: is there a way to limit the history so it purges old pages…

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Fix for: Why is the Firefox location bar so slow?

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Vacuum it! There's an add-on to this automatically as well. Since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases. Also, the default history time span was raised from 9 to 90 days as it became more discoverable and usefu…

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