[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
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