200206 - Compose window creation is pathetically slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137698

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Andy Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021211

Click on compose (or Reply, or Reply All).  Wait.  A long time.

On my 1533MHz Athlon, the compose window takes three seconds to appear
and another three or so to initialize, redrawing and re-laying-out several
times in the process.

For some embarassing context: the back of my envelope tells me that this
equates to about an hour of CPU time on a VAX 11/780.  Just to pop up
a boring window?

Seriously, this is a major problem.  I send email all day long, and having
to wait for this thing to show up every time is a major annoyance.  Try
the same operation in (literally) any other mail client.  Mozilla is at
least an order of magnitude slower than everyone else out there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Have you set the pref to disable compose window caching by any chance?

Comment 2

[Andy Ross]

I've never heard of such a feature.  This is the default configuration.
Doc reference?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/init/mailnews.js#474
and http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/unix/unix.js#378
-- looks like this is slow on Linux until bug 137698 gets fixed... (and I'd say
this is a duplicate, then).

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137698 ***