264996 - Thunderbird custom new mail sound locks up UI while playing (isn't asynchronous)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250186

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Christopher Orr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913)

While the new mail notification sound plays, the UI is totally frozen.  Using a
WAV file that lasts more than a second or so makes this a particularly annoying
problem.

The UI returns to normal once the sound finishes playing.

Seems there has been a possibly related comment in bug #110385, regarding the
MailNews product.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set "Custom .wav file" to something at least one second long.
2. Wait for new mail to be received.


Actual Results:  
UI freezes for the entire time that the notification sound plays.

Expected Results:  
Sound should play in the background, leaving UI usable.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

...I figure this is mailnews level stuff

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250186 ***