336843 - Inline forwarding (HTML) apparently hangs thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324521

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[jonathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Hi, I recently installed thunderbird for the first time. One email newsletter I subscribe to crashes the viewer when i try to forward the message. It works fine in Outlook Express.

I can view the message fine in the preview pane, and fine when I open the email. But when I forward it, it seems to come up in a compose window, but then just hangs "(Not Responding)" in titlebar. To get out I have to click the X (close), get an error box (Not responding) and select Close Now, which closes the whole Thunderbird app with all its windows.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[jonathan]

Attachment: saved copy of email that crashes it

Comment 2

[jonathan]

version 1.5.0.2 (20060308)

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This isn't actually hanging, but it is taking a very long time to complete the process of an inline-forward into an HTML compose window.  It's a large, 
complex message.  I would agree, however, that it takes far too long -- about three CPU-minutes, on my 750MHz P3 system.  Edit as New also drags on for a 
long time.

(The message also takes a noticeable amount of time to simply display in the message pane, and closing the compose window containing the forwarded message likewise takes a non-trivial amount of time.)

Note that opening the message attached here from the .EML file won't 
necessarily exhibit the problem when forwarding; it's necessary to integrate 
the message into a mail folder.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Jonathan: Does turning of spell checking help? (-> bug 324521, fixed for 2.0)

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

With my copy of reporter's message, the performance is much better with inline spellcheck turned off.  Also using 2a1-0523, with inline spellcheck enabled; I don't know why I didn't try a 2a1 build when I tested this...

Comment 6

[Patrick Goetz]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Jonathan: Does turning of spell checking help? (-> bug 324521, fixed for 2.0)
> 

Yes!  Turning off "Enable Spell as you type" appears to fix this problem.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping per reporter's comment 6.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324521 ***