291467 - Address autocompletion feature makes TB work for ages when many addresses are pasted

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[jotta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54  [en]
Build Identifier: 

I was creating a HTML newsletter to 4500 recipients. When I pasted the email 
addresses into a Bcc address line, and changed focus to message composition 
window, the cursor changed to the clock icon and this window stopped responding. 
After ~15-20 minutes I've shut down TB and switched off autocompletion after 
restart, which solved the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. paste some thousand email addresses into an address line
2. change focus to the mail body

Actual Results:  
ThunderBird stopped responding for more than 15 minutes

Expected Results:  
Insert the addresses much more faster - or at least drop an alert, that pasting 
too much addresses will be very slow with AutoComplete turned on.

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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