"Forget About This Site" Insanely CPU Intensive, Takes Forever/Crashes Browser -- Same for all history deletions

I have over 6 months of browser history, and I browse twitter a lot. I want to "Forget About" Twitter. Whenever I try to do that, Firefox just hangs, and becomes impossible to use. It's the same if I try to delete, say, everything from 6 months ago.
Deleting my browser history should NOT be a browser-breaking process. My rig is a Phenom IIx4 build, and I'm running off of an SSD. Maybe you guys have tied up all of the browser history into some complicated cache for the URL bar, I don't know. But this is pathetic. If I can delete 10GBs of crap from my HD within seconds, I should be able to delete my browser history.

randomanon1234,
You posted here with PaleMoon in the Firefox support forum, and didn't specifically refer to which version of Firefox your problem is/was with. We assume that the support question is about the browser used to post here, unless that is obviously incorrect; like the thread was started on a Mobile device, or using IE or Chrome - then we ask, if the Firefox version wasn't stated along with the question.
You might think PaleMoon and Firefox are the same and that I am "splitting hairs", but "we" have had a discussion with and initiated by MoonChild of the PaleMoon project in the Contributors area over "us" referring to PaleMoon as a "3rd Party build" of Firefox. He insists that PaleMoon is a Gecko "fork", not a re-branded version of Firefox - IOW, a completely separate browser that uses much of the same code that is in Firefox. MoonChild also informed us that the PaleMoon project had their own support forum, and asked that we refer "his" users that come here, over to the PaleMoon project forum for support.
Now, if that constitutes my being "snarky", I apologize. If you are talking about problems with a version of Firefox that you used to use, you may provide feedback to Mozilla here - https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
If you aren't using Firefox now because of that problem, this conversation isn't a "support topic".

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What is the difference between "Delete" & "Forget about this site" when deleting a single item in the 'History' as a 'customising' procedure ?'c'

I am still using Firefox on Windows XP

Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.
You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of the involved files.
It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.

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'''how do i retrieve the sites i lost in history?'''

Tony, thnx for the prompt response,,
however, i didn't delete. i hit the below option which reads; "forget about this site" which is the last item in the list that appears when you right click any site in history.
i was told there are open source programs that can retrieve it.
'''how sure r u that they cannot be recovered?!'''

I need to know how to disable the forget about this site feature.

I have disabled the inprivate browsing feature and I need to know how to disable the forget about this site feature. I have a teenager and this is not a feature that I want available.

Some info here (group policy) --> http://www.unidesk.com/blog/how-disable-firefox-auto-updates 
Above article refers to --> http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.'''

I use Firefox 'Most Visited' for easy access to the websites I use every day. I inadvertently clicked 'Forget About This Site' on a page that I need. That page is gone, apparently permanently, from my 'Most Visted' list. How can I get it back?

I use Firefox 'Most Visited' to access websites I use many times every day. I inadvertently clicked 'Forget About This Site' on a page listing that I need. That page is gone, apparently permanently, from my 'Most Visited' list. No matter how many times I re-visit the page, it will not show up on 'Most Visited'. How can I get it back? Thanks!

Most Visited is an automatically generated list that shows sites that you've visited. 
If you delete the history of a site then you have with a visit count of zero. 
To make that site reappear in that you you will have to visit that site often enough to make the visit count match the other sites in that list or clear the history from other sites in that list.
You can make the Visit Count column visible in the History Manager to see how many times you've visit sites.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Viewing_the_browsing_history_-_Firefox

I've clicked 'forget about this site', can I undo this by running the 'system restore' feature to recover my history?

I accidentally clicked 'forget about this site' and I'm looking for a way to undo this. I've heard there is no way to recover the history from a particular site once it has been deleted, but surely it leaves some kind of record in the system? I read an article that suggested running the 'system restore' feature which gives me the option of 'restoring my computer to an earlier time' before certain changes were made. Would this work?

no, updating the browser won't have an impact on your history - all your personal data will remain.
a general tip if you want to avoid data loss/highly depend on this data, is to back-up your firefox profile regularly: [[Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles]]

How to undo "Forget about this site" to restor my history???

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Hi,
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada and when I try to use Siri it loads and loads and then says, "I'm really sorry about this, but I can't take any requests right now. Please try again in a little while."
I rebooted and it didn't fix the problem. I just got my iPhone 4s (unlocked right from Apple) several weeks ago.

Siri has been a bit more erratic than usual in the last week or so. Apple has announced a major announcement for 9/12. Conclusions are left to the reader.
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(Occasionally from Lower Economy, Colchester County).

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Re: about siri siri say im really sorry about this but i can not take any requests right now please try again a little while.      this more 1 month
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