There are a couple of ways that we can speed up loading of bookmarks.html: o read in the entire file at once (instead of line by line) and parse it up in memory o defer importing of IE Favorites (on Mac, where it is an HTML file) until needed I have changes in my local tree which implement both of the above. On my Mac, the time to load in bookmarks.html *during startup* drops from around 300 milliseconds to around 80 milliseconds.

Fixed. We now defer loading of IE favorites.html on Mac until needed. Also, we first try to bulk-read in the entire file and parse it up in memory... if that fails however, we step back down to trying to read in the file one line at a time.

resolved development issues - closing