142469 - Sometimes searches are not stoppable

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 127398

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stephan Golux]

Using 1.0RC1:

1.  I did a very stupid search.  On a mail folder that is well over 100MB, I
asked the Search mechanism to find a word in the BODY of the mail.

2.  The system started going nuts.  Hogging the CPU, although with patience I
could start other programs, but the disk was thrashing.  No Mozilla window was
responsive in any way, and none would repaint.  The "Search" button did not
change to a "Stop" button.

3.  The search continued for about 20 minutes, and then it returned the right
result.

PROBLEM:  I couldn't stop a stupid search I had started.

DESIRED RESULT:  I should be able to stop a stupid search without being punished
by having to wait for 20 minutes.

NB:  I attempted some other slightly less stupid searches, like "Find all the
mail in all my folders that is less than 20 days old".  These searches might
take on the order of 20 seconds, and I was able to stop them half-way through --
in other words the stop button works.  However, the failure of the single word
search on a mamoth mail file when looking in the body of the message leads to an
unresponsive and uninterruptible process every time.

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127398 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate