[PLUG] Odd delays in Thunderbird
Jesse Millan
jesse.millan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 02:16:51 UTC 2005
You don't by chance have an ldap account configured for addresses do
you? In the past, I have noticed composing delays (sometimes to the
point of being totally unresponsive) associated with Thunderbird
communicating with the LDAP server.
On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
> http://home.comcast.net/~rsteff/
>
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