301687 - Program unresponsive for about 20 seconds when entering an address into To Field

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Geoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: version 1.0.6 (20050716)

When Trying to compose an email in Thunderbird, any time i start entering an
email address, the program becomes unresponsive for a period of time and when it
alows interaction again it has filled in the adress line with either an address
like the one i am sending it to, or a generic one such as guy@(my emails ending
U....edu)

no

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load program
2.click compose email
3.start typing in To Box

Actual Results:  
program freezes till it comes up with either an adress of someone i know or a
genaric one.  

Expected Results:  
let me finish typeing, not froze

i have a large numer of emails in my inbox, and 2 different accounts used in
thunderbird in an imap format.  also many different folders,  (its my school
email account,  and club email account)

Comment 1

[Avram Lyon]

I have exactly the same behavior in 
Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716), Mac OS 10.3.9

In my case, the "freeze" happens only when Thunderbird is set to autocomplete
using LDAP and the LDAP is not working properly (i.e., computer is not online).
Turning off LDAP for autocomplete stops the freezes.

Comment 2

[Tyler Cunnion]

This behavior still exists in 20051201
I do use an LDAP address book for school, and now that I'm home it does this; turning off the LDAP does indeed stop the freeze.

Comment 3

[Art Wildman]

Possible duplicate/solution filed as a feature enhancement...
Bug 332169 - ldap timeout should revert to offline address book
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332169

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM version 3.0a1pre (2008032302)
please comment if you see otherwise