Closed Bug 378525 Opened 18 years ago Closed 16 years ago

loading startpage when proxy not set as needed gives 100% CPU with busy indicator at thunderbird startup

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Preferences
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 919485

People

(Reporter: brian.cox, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: perf)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326) 1. start thunderbird 2. select folder Inbox on the left 3. CPU runs at 100% with busy indicator and "Loading message..." message on lower left until a message is selected in the window on the right cause: thunderbird is trying to access the startup page but there's a proxy and it is not configured to access the net through a proxy. Doing the configuration or turning off the startup page is a workaround for this issue. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3.
Summary: 100% CPU with busy indicator at thunderbird startup → loading startpage when proxy not set as needed gives 100% CPU with busy indicator at thunderbird startup
Version: unspecified → 2.0
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Brian, doyou still see this?
Keywords: perf
Wayne, I am -- thankfully -- no longer on a proxied connection to the Net, so, no, I haven't seen this but that's no indication that it still doesn't happend
Brian, tahnks for the feedback. -> incomplete
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
This old bug does still exist with Thunderbird 24.3.0. When using Thunderbird behind a firewall that requires a (socks) proxy to connect to the mail server and the proxy is not properly configured, there is a high CPU load until the connection times out. Obviously there is some busy loop waiting for the connection.
As I wrote for bug 919485, it is straightforward (for anyone on any version!) to reproduce this bug: Simply put any garbage IP address and port number in the HTTP proxy settings, then for instance search for add-ons via Tools->Add-Ons. This phenomenon is still present in TB 31.2.0, and likewise in FF 33.1. I wonder why this 7+ years old bug is still marked as RESOLVED INCOMPLETE. Moreover, those ugly battery-wasting bugs due to busy loop(s) on connect should hot be too hard to correct. My guess is that all of them can be traced down to a single careless chunk of low-level code.
perhpas a duplicate of bug 919485
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → DUPLICATE
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