Open Bug 1612520 Opened 6 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Provide a mechanism for batching large "mark as read" operations

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Folder and Message Lists
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: squib, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: perf)

The folder summary (bug 492158) listens for changes to the folder's message list so that it can update its contents. This poses a problem when a user selects "Mark All Read" (or similar): Thunderbird treats this as N separate "Mark Read" operations, resulting in the folder summary getting bogged down by events.

The Mail Summaries add-on works around this by broadcasting a notification that "Mark All Read" is starting/ending, so that we know to ignore Mark Read events during that period. There's probably a better way to do this though.

Severity: normal → S4
Keywords: perf
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