267399 - Intermittent Problems with RSS feeds updating after startup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Noticed this while version 0.8+ (20041101) today. Tracy and I discussed seeing
this behavior as well, so I thought it was worth filing a bug.

I immediately turn the "Check for New Articles at Startup" pref after I create
my RSS account.  However, after numerous restarts during my testing, I don't see
that my RSS accounts are getting updated consistently after a restart.

Moreover, when I restart I don't get anything in the status bar that tells me
that it is checking feeds for news items like it does when you do a manual
refresh. So at this point I am not convinced that with the pref on I am actually
getting any new articles.  Despite the fact that livejournal.com is updated
quite frequently, I don't ever see that getting updated after a restart.

Let me know if others are seeing this during their testing.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I launch tbird from a shell on linux fc2, so I do see a lot of activity there.
for example, from the Livejournal feed I've got in my RSS account (a tiny
snippet, this is for only one article, so it's much larger in reality):

 -- FZ -- : Latest LiveJournal.com Posts: casab1ancas: i need new friends
(undefined) already stored; ignoring
 -- FZ -- : validating http://www.livejournal.com/users/casab1ancas/15525.html
 -- FZ -- : removing invalid items for
http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml

however, I agree with Marcia and Tracy: I don't see statusbar activity which is
specific the RSS account. the progress meter does paint --but I've got 4 other
accounts in my profile, and it's unclear if the progress is for the RSS account
or the others. also, upon starting tbird I don't see new RSS articles received.
I need to hit Ctrl+T (or the Get Mail button in the toolbar), after which I do
see "Checking RSS feeds for new articles" in the statusbar. and hitting that cmd
is more likely to grab the new articles, than upon startup.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Marcia, is this working now for you?  

Perhaps this is related to bug 331401.

bug 322793 (perhaps related to bug 333547)
bug 293567 (possibly fixed)
Bug 368040 (about to close)
bug 364766 (specific to auth?)
Bug 342516 (about to close)

(In reply to comment #1)
> ...
> I need to hit Ctrl+T (or the Get Mail button in the toolbar), after which I do
> see "Checking RSS feeds for new articles" in the statusbar. and hitting that cmd
> is more likely to grab the new articles, than upon startup.

testing thunderbird v2, it looks to me like it doesn't check "immediately", it takes a minute or two before it checks.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

found a couple more, not necessarily startup related

bug 324289 (probably a dupe)
bug 270275
bug 317707
bug 313031 (startup related)

Comment 4

[alta88]

fixed in Bug 711173.