They are probably the favicons for each bookmark stored as a png in base64 encoding. If you look at the beginning of the hex string you'll probably see it start something like:
ICON="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAA... If that's not it, the name of the parameter in the html tag may give a clue as to what it is. On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 5:52 PM American Citizen <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > Recently (the last 2 weeks) I have noticed a definite slow down in the 2 > internet browsers I use (Opera and Firefox) > > I purposefully timed the start up of Mozilla Firefox this late > afternoon, it took over 5 minutes before coming up, which is astonishing. > > I also tried Opera, it came up within about 9 seconds, but after I > imported the bookmarks from Firefox, it then took about 19 seconds. > > I exported the Firefox bookmarks to an html file and was astonished to > discover that for each bookmark, thousands of hex characters were being > stored, the average is 1981 hex chars stored per book mark. > > Why is Firefox storing almost 2K hex characters per bookmark? > > After I imported the Firefox bookmarks into Opera (which required the > installation of an Opera bookmarks extension application program) then > Opera bringup slowed down significantly too. It was about 3 seconds and > stretched out to 19 secs as I mentioned previously. > > Has anyone noticed the slow down? Why has Mozilla Firefox embedded > almost 2K of hex code per bookmark? > > Has there been any feedback from the browser companies, as to what they > are doing with book marks and why things are running slower than every > before? > > Randall > > > -- Paul Blattner
