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💡 What: Added a hard cap to the SQLite query reading Firefox bookmarks, capping the result set at MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS (100,000) using a LIMIT clause.
🎯 Why: A user's Firefox places.sqlite can grow extremely large or be bloated by automated tools. Loading millions of rows into memory at once can exhaust memory resources or block the application thread during import. This brings Firefox behavior in line with the existing Chromium JSON parser cap of 100,000 nodes.
📊 Measured Improvement:

  • Baseline (500k rows): ~308ms to retrieve and allocate all half-million records.
  • Optimized (500k rows in DB): ~85ms to fetch the capped 100,000 records.
    This prevents memory footprint bloat and ensures the import function execution time is bounded and won't hang the application on excessively large databases.

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Performance: Firefox Bookmarks Import Size Limited to 100,000

User-visible behavior: Firefox bookmarks import now caps at 100,000 entries (matching the existing Chromium bookmark limit). Users with Firefox profiles containing more than 100,000 bookmarks will only import the first 100,000.

Core Rust impact:

  • Added MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS constant (100,000) and modified the read_firefox_bookmarks SQLite query to include ORDER BY b.id ASC with a LIMIT clause
  • Performance improvement: ~85ms for capped 100k records vs ~308ms baseline for 500k rows on oversized profiles
  • Eliminates memory exhaustion and application thread stalls when reading bloated Firefox places.sqlite files

Tests:

  • Added firefox_bookmarks_are_ordered_by_bookmark_id_before_limit() unit test to verify bookmarks are returned in ascending bookmark-id order before the limit is applied

Security: Mitigates potential denial-of-service scenarios from maliciously oversized or bloated Firefox profiles that could exhaust system resources during import.

Adds a `MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS` constant and a `LIMIT` clause to the
SQLite query that reads Firefox bookmarks. This prevents memory issues
and application thread stalls when reading from a malicious or bloated
Firefox profile containing millions of entries, matching the existing
soft cap used for Chromium profiles.

Co-authored-by: Lucenx9 <185146821+Lucenx9@users.noreply.github.com>
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This PR limits Firefox bookmarks to a maximum count and ensures they are returned in a consistent order by bookmark ID. The constant MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS caps the result set, the SQL query adds ORDER BY b.id ASC with a LIMIT clause, and a new test validates the ordering behavior.

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Firefox bookmarks limit and ordering

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Firefox bookmarks limit and ordering
crates/forktty-import/src/history.rs
Add MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS constant, update read_firefox_bookmarks query to order results by bookmark row ID in ascending order and apply a row limit, and add a test that verifies bookmarks are returned in bookmark-id order before the limit is enforced.

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P2 Badge Make capped Firefox bookmark imports deterministic

When a Firefox profile has more than MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS matching bookmarks, this new LIMIT decides which bookmarks are imported, but the query has no ORDER BY. SQLite does not guarantee row order without an explicit ordering, so the capped import can silently keep an arbitrary subset that may change with indexes/query plans instead of a stable prefix such as bookmark id or date-added order.

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Adds a `MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS` constant and a `LIMIT` clause to the
SQLite query that reads Firefox bookmarks. This prevents memory issues
and application thread stalls when reading from a malicious or bloated
Firefox profile containing millions of entries, matching the existing
soft cap used for Chromium profiles.

Co-authored-by: Lucenx9 <185146821+Lucenx9@users.noreply.github.com>
Adds a `MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS` constant and a `LIMIT` clause to the
SQLite query that reads Firefox bookmarks. This prevents memory issues
and application thread stalls when reading from a malicious or bloated
Firefox profile containing millions of entries, matching the existing
soft cap used for Chromium profiles.

Co-authored-by: Lucenx9 <185146821+Lucenx9@users.noreply.github.com>
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crates/forktty-import/src/history.rs (1)

197-230: ⚡ Quick win

Add a direct truncation assertion for the Firefox bookmark cap.

This test validates ordering, but not that results are actually capped at MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS. Add one test inserting MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS + 1 bookmark rows and assert returned length equals MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS.

Proposed test shape
+    #[test]
+    fn firefox_bookmarks_respect_max_limit() {
+        let dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let db = dir.path().join("places.sqlite");
+        let conn = rusqlite::Connection::open(&db).unwrap();
+        conn.execute_batch(
+            "CREATE TABLE moz_places (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, url TEXT, title TEXT);
+             CREATE TABLE moz_bookmarks (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, fk INTEGER, title TEXT, type INTEGER);",
+        ).unwrap();
+
+        let tx = conn.unchecked_transaction().unwrap();
+        {
+            let mut p = tx.prepare("INSERT INTO moz_places (id,url,title) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3)").unwrap();
+            let mut b = tx.prepare("INSERT INTO moz_bookmarks (id,fk,title,type) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3, 1)").unwrap();
+            for i in 1..=(MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS as i64 + 1) {
+                let url = format!("https://{i}.test/");
+                p.execute(rusqlite::params![i, url, "t"]).unwrap();
+                b.execute(rusqlite::params![i, i, "bm"]).unwrap();
+            }
+        }
+        tx.commit().unwrap();
+        drop(conn);
+
+        let bms = read_firefox_bookmarks(&db).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(bms.len(), MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS);
+    }

Based on learnings: "Write Rust tests for browser command types, profile metadata, and history/bookmark stores in browser feature implementation".

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In `@crates/forktty-import/src/history.rs` around lines 197 - 230, Add a new unit
test that specifically asserts truncation at MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS: create a
temp DB, insert MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS + 1 rows into moz_places and moz_bookmarks
(using the same pattern as
firefox_bookmarks_are_ordered_by_bookmark_id_before_limit), call
read_firefox_bookmarks(&db).unwrap(), and assert that the returned Vec length
equals MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS; reference the existing helper
read_firefox_bookmarks and the constant MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS to locate where to
cap the results.
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In `@crates/forktty-import/src/history.rs`:
- Around line 197-230: Add a new unit test that specifically asserts truncation
at MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS: create a temp DB, insert MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS + 1
rows into moz_places and moz_bookmarks (using the same pattern as
firefox_bookmarks_are_ordered_by_bookmark_id_before_limit), call
read_firefox_bookmarks(&db).unwrap(), and assert that the returned Vec length
equals MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS; reference the existing helper
read_firefox_bookmarks and the constant MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS to locate where to
cap the results.

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Lucenx9 and others added 7 commits June 3, 2026 16:27
Adds a `MAX_FIREFOX_BOOKMARKS` constant and a `LIMIT` clause to the
SQLite query that reads Firefox bookmarks. This prevents memory issues
and application thread stalls when reading from a malicious or bloated
Firefox profile containing millions of entries, matching the existing
soft cap used for Chromium profiles.

Co-authored-by: Lucenx9 <185146821+Lucenx9@users.noreply.github.com>
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