[PLUG] Odd delays in Thunderbird

[Richard C. Steffens]

Sometimes, when starting to compose a message in Thunderbird, it takes a 
noticeable amount of time (up to 20 seconds, in extreme instances), 
after the composition window appears before T-bird is ready to accept 
what I type for the To: line. This experience holds whether I'm using 
T-bird on SuSE 9.1, or Win98SE. My wife has a similar experience on 
Win98SE. I've also experienced times when I try to highlight a word with 
the mouse, and nothing happens for about 10 seconds. Then, mouse actions 
return to normal. To be more specific, I can move the mouse cursor to 
the beginning of a word. When I click and drag, nothing happens for up 
to 10 seconds, after which time, I can go back and click and drag  over 
the word normally.

Has anyone else seen something like this?

Could it just be that my 5+ year old machines are not quite up to the 
task of current software? All of our machines are in the 350-500 MHz 
processor speed range.

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Dick Steffens
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