start time degrades as history grows

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[Anton Mostovoy]

After I used safari for a while, i noticed that there is a long delay (5+ seconds) after  the first Safari window opens and before the home page loads.  At this time if I click on the windows, it becomes 'hung'.
After some experimentation, I found that if i clear the history (Edit-> Reset Safari -> C;ear History only), the startup delay goes away until the history builds up again.

I am on WinXp sp3 on Intel Core Duo 2ghz with 3GB of RAM.

Needless to say this is a pretty nasty usability issue.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

How many history items do you have when you experience the 5+ second hang?  The easiest way to check this is to search for "." in the search field in the Bookmarks view, scoped to the History collection.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/5925184>

[Anton Mostovoy]

I'll check next time it gets to that point. I think i had to reset history after about 1.5-2 weeks since last reset.

[Anton Mostovoy]

It's at 6+ seconds and I have 1635 matches