101553 - Improve performance of autocomplete when using Outlook Express Address Book

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement)

Description

[Gareth King]

On a PC with an Outlook Express Address Book, activate the feature enabled by
bug 83103 with the following changes to prefs.js:

user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.description", "Outlook Express");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.dirType", 3);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.filename", "OE.mab");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.position", 4);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.replication.lastChangeNumber", 0);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.OE.uri", "moz-aboutlookdirectory://oe/");

Compose a new mail message and type in a few letters of someone's name (in your
address book). It takes much longer than expected / reasonable to get suggested
addresses.

Note: Number of addresses in pab is 294 and OE address book 383.

Work around - Open address book and click on 'OE Contacts' address book. Now the
autocomplete is fast (as expected).

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

No dupes found. Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassignig to cavin

Comment 3

[John Marmion]

This might be worth the reporter's time looking at this again following the
landing of bug #73868 which addressed performance issues. There is a small drag,
you would need to apply patch for bug #118119 to re-enable Outlook Express. I
have not noticed any performance issues with OE in autcomplete but I don't
believe I have tested with as much data. The other factor is that AutoComplete
also uses the Collected Addresses AB to search. I don't know if you have any
data in it.

Comment 4

[Gareth King]

Sorry, I don't have the ability to build mozilla. When bug #118119 lands I'll
check whether I still see a performance issue with autocomplete and OE.

Comment 5

[punkadiddle]

This problem still exists in
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040623

Opening the Outlook Address Book in Mozilla doesn't improve search time for
typing in a recipient address.
Windows Address Book can be configured to use the Outlook Adress Book, too. This
is very fast. There might be a problem in the way Mozilla queries the Outlook
database.

Comment 6

[HUI, Arion (Mr)]

Version:   	Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (20061207) 
User-Agent:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 
System:    	Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz 1 GB 318 MHz DDR SDRAM 890 MB Page File used 
OS:        	Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Version 2002 Service Pack 2 
Condition: 	About 900 e-mail addresses with profiling articles in the Note field 


Description: Thunderbird 1.5.x.x (all versions) halted (i.e., 99% CPU) over 45 minutes EVERY TIME during (scenario A) initial opening of Contacts Sidebar (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/70/), (scenario B) sending the first message (Ctrl+Enter), (scenario C) opening Address Book the first time (Ctrl+2), (scenario D) autocompleting the first e-mail address while writing a new message. Once any of this action was done, Address Book could be opened multiple times without further trouble until restarting Thunderbird. 


Expectation: Initial Address Book assessing fast like thunder! 


Reproducible: Always 


Steps to reproduce: 
Scenario A. 
 1. Press F4 to open the Contacts Sidebar the first time after Thunderbird restarted. 
Scenario B. 
 1. Press Ctrl+Enter to send a message the first time after Thunderbird restarted. 
Scenario C. 
 1. Press Ctrl+2 to open Address Book the first time to after Thunderbird restarted. 
Scenario D. 
 1. Press Ctrl+M, autocompleting the first e-mail address after Thunderbird restarted. 


Reference: 
Bugs were suspected of the same cause. 
 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101553 
 2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117230 
 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168038 
 4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362897 


Affected: 
Bugs could have been affected. 
 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147736 
 2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165569 
 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296974 


P.S. What else could be helpful for further diagnosing.

Comment 7

[HUI, Arion (Mr)]

In-Reply-To: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168038
> Mark Banner [mailto:[e-mail]] 2007-02-16 00:12:55 PST
> 
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > P.S. What else could be helpful for further diagnosing.
> 
> Try the steps here:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Long_time_to_open_address_book
> 

Mark Banner's suggestion has resolved my problem. Thank you so much! :-)

Comment 8

[Jimisola Laursen]

I added bug #368355 9 months ago and it has not received any attention. Thought that a comment here might give it the initial attention thatit needs.

368355:
Outlook Contacts integration causes TB autocomplete freezes up to 1 minute after typing one or two characters of an email adress