268510 - compose window freezes for up to 20sec at a time

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jason Haar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

When I am in the compose window, it routinely freezes - locks up - for a period
of time.

Most often it happens when I decide to try to select some text to delete - but
not always.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose email or reply to email
2. try to select some text, or click the mouse somewhere to start writing
3.

Actual Results:  
freezes. After some time < 20 sec, it starts responding.

Expected Results:  
Immediately respond

This is Thunderbird 0.9 under Fedora Core 2 using KDE 3.3.1.

I have HTML-editor enabled by default - I wonder if that is related? 

I will disable HTML and go plain text for a while and let you know.

No need - I just did and it didn't help. I disabled HTML, composed a Reply to an
email and started typing. Then I went to delete some commented text, and it
hung. While it was hung I tried to jump back to my virtual desktop containing
this Firefox window and couldn't! It appears that the mouse (which was moving
fine) couldn't control anything any more. Then about 5 secs later it came right
- I saw the cursor in Thunderbird jump to the piece of the compose window I had
clicked on - just before I suddenly jumped to this Firefox window. i.e. it looks
like all the actions were queued up and replayed once "the problem" was sorted out.

Comment 1

[alafeng]

My OS is Windowxp thunderbird 1.02

and Have same problem.
--------------------------
when I was pressed the [create] or [reply] or [forword] button,
the Message compose window was shown.
but the windows was freezes - locked up -  , and system show "no responding"
message past 2 secs.

BUT the windows will be wake up more than 10 secs late.

sometimes, the thunderbird program has been crashed.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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