447965 - very slow opening windows file dialogues

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Yury]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080708)

All file dialogues are very slow to open. When it lists file in the directory, it makes strange pauses after drawing a filename. (I remember something in the past like that.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to save or load something
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
slow opening of file dialogue

Expected Results:  
fast opening of dialogue

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent: (snip) Windows NT 5.0; (snip)

> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Try to save or load something
> Actual Results:  
> slow opening of file dialogue

How long does next command take in your environment?
 1. DIR \\ABC\DEF  ("ABC" is non-existent file server name)
 2. NET VIEW \\PQR ("PQR" is non-existent file server name)
 3. NET VIEW

Comment 3

[Yury]

And yes, I've noticed that the slowness is almost null when the compure is idle and offline. But not when it is 88% CPU loaded and online.

22:56:50.05
 (hundred of 'DIR \\ABC\DEF')
22:56:51.09
 (hundred of 'NET VIEW \\PQR')
22:57:54.46
 (hundred of 'NET VIEW')
22:59:33.17

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> And yes, I've noticed that the slowness is almost null when the compure is idle
> and offline. But not when it is 88% CPU loaded and online.

If performance is fine when computer is otherwise idle, then I'd say this invalid.
Conversely, expect file dialog to be slow when computer is loaded with such things as scans, searches, etc, or dragged down by network

wada?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

caused by OS.

wouldn't suprise me if this were a duplicate