285883 - can't resize the panes while downloading news headers

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[a_geek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 MultiZilla/1.7.0.2b Mnenhy/0.7
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While downloading headers from a newsgroup, I can't resize any of the panes
(group list, message, threads) until the download is finished. Since downloading
takes much time, and since I need a different pane layout for selecting a group
(left pane wide) and reading it (left pane tall), this is a nuisance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a usenet news account
2. select a group with many posts (eg. comp.lang.python)
3. click download all headers (> 5000), and wait

Actual Results:  
TB forces a pause on me until it's finished downloading any headers.

Expected Results:  
The UI should continue to react and just download the headers in the background.

Usability problems should have their own category.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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