417537 - Gmail lags, takes a long time to finish loading menus and folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Catherine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

This is new in this version, old version and IE respond quickly - gmail is so slow it is unusable

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[ajr]

On gmail's message list view, each line contains a star graphic (cleardot.gif). When the message list is drawn, the stars are downloaded one by one. For me on a fast connection this takes upwards of 10 seconds for a list of 20 messages. And clicking on a message will not load until all of the star graphics are loaded. So that's 10> seconds before on can start reading mail coming from the message list. I agree with OP, gmail on F3B3 is so slow it is unusable. 

Comment 2

[ajr]

Actually its even worse than i described above, until all the images are drawn the interface is unresponsive, eg you cant even switch tabs.

Comment 3

[ajr]

I noticed that I had browser.cache.memory.enable set to false. After setting it to true, I have been unable to reproduce the issue.

Comment 4

[Ronni Persson]

I meet this issue every time I take action in Gmail. E.g.:
- On login
- When clicking a message to read it
- Browsing folders

It takes app. 10 seconds for me to navigate, each time.

This is only on Windows, on my Mac Firefox runs smoothly.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091119 Minefield/3.7a1pre

please open if you see this problem using a current version started in safe mode. https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode