138719 - Windows explorer extremely slow from Mozilla (save or open)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 111821

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Curtis Priest]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

When you click to save or open a file in Mozilla, the Windows explorer file
manager displays each item in the directory sequentially one after the other,
taking several seconds to display the entire contents of any given directory. In
other programs and browsers this directory display is instantaneous.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the File menu
2. Open File

Actual Results:  The directory displays very slowly, one file after another.

Expected Results:  The directory should have displayed instantaneously.

This happens with each directory you enter, not just the first one.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
INTEL Pentium III 677 MHz

Comment 2

[Curtis Priest]

Oh I guess should mention that I am running a P2 Dual 400 with 512MB of RAM. 
Also, this bug existed under 0.9.9 as well, but I can't recall if it existed 
before that or not.

Comment 3

[Pete Boyd]

I've been seeing this bug something like once every 3 days for the past 3 weeks
and am currently seeing it in Mozilla 2002043006 (1.0 branch), Windows 2000 SP2.
I've only seen it with File -> Open and it can take me something like 60 seconds
to get a directory listing. if this isn't fixable by wiping out my profile and
beginning again (which I haven't tried) then I suggest this is a RC2/1.0 showstopper

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

WFM with 2002092308/trunk/win2k (although I used to experience this with old
versions of mozilla - maybe related to bug 133732?)

reporter (Curtis): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla
(for example, 1.2alpha)? if so, please comment again with details. if not,
please resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 5

[Curtis Priest]

I'm afraid it's still here in 1.2alpha as well. It's not quite as severe, but
definitely bad enough that it makes it very tedious saving into directories with
lots of files.

Comment 6

[Pete Boyd]

I still see it with Mozilla 1.1, Windows 2000. this is not bug 133732

Comment 7

[Curtis Priest]

Hm actually it seems to have disappeared now in Mozilla 1.2a. Earlier today I 
noticed it wasn't happening anymore, so I just tested it again now and it's 
still not occuring. I'll let you know if it comes back again and see if I can 
figure out what causes it.

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

resolving WORKSFORME per previous comment.

if either of you can reproduce this with a recent build (even 1.2a is quite old
by now - 1.2 final will be out in a few days...), please reopen and give
details. thanks.

Comment 9

[Curtis Priest]

Hm, it seems to be back with a vengeance now in both Mozilla 1.3a and the
nightly build 2002122008. It's now the worst I've seen it and opening and saving
files in Mozilla takes some SERIOUS patience :-(

Comment 10

[Pete Boyd]

re comment #9, ditto myself with 1.2.1 on Windows2000SP3

Comment 11

[Curtis Priest]

I've gone back to 1.3a as the nightly builds were too unstable, and the problem
seems to have gone away again. Why? I have NO clue.

Comment 12

[OstGote!]

Dupe of bug 111821?

"File Save As dialog loads filenames very slowly"

Comment 13

[Pete Boyd]

looks as though this would be a dupe of 111821 except for that bug is only about
saving, where-as this bug is about both saving and opening

Comment 14

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's the same dialog

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111821 ***

Comment 15

[Michael Lefevre]

same dialog, but it has different buttons and text, so it looks different ;)

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