533441 - Startup time on OSX 10.4 is long, very slow compared to MS Windows XP

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jurek R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; de-de) AppleWebKit/532.6+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091207 Lightning/1.0b1pre Shredder/3.0.1pre

The startup of Shredder on OSX 10.4.11 is very slow, much slower than the equal Shredder with equal configuration on Windows XP on the same machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compare startup time of Shredder on OSX 10.4.11 with Windows on the same machine

Actual Results:  
Very slow startup, sometimes minutes

Expected Results:  
As fast as in Windows version

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you measure the time and give us numbers please ? and how many accounts do you have , so we can get an idea ?

Comment 2

[Jurek R.]

This appears only if I update Shredder and restart it. I measured/compared it on OSX 10.4.11 vs. 10.5.7:

Shredder appears almost in 3-4 seconds on OSX 10.5 after update-restart. It takes about 30-40 seconds on OSX 10.4 after update-restart.

If I normally quit the app and then load it again, it takes the same time on both systems.

So i conclude there could be some performance degradation bug with OSX 10.4...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

how does Thunderbird 2 on same Mac compare to version 3?
related to check for extension compatibility?
do you have a master password defined for thunderbird?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jurek, do you see the same performance difference starting thunderbird in safe mode?  And in comment 0 you compare to windows XP.  Perhaps a fuller picture is needed?  Can you summarize in a table.
       TB2    TB3
       ---    ---
XP
10.4
10.5

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

There were some improvements made for Mac OS X on Firefox that improved startup by around 36% that I doubt Thunderbird does as of yet.

http://autonome.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/firefox-startup-performance-weekly-summary-12/

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this issue when using version 5 or 6 (due out a week)?
- If you no longer see the problem, please set status to RESOLVED, and set resolution to WORKSFORME.
- If you still see the problem, please provide updated details, and any additional steps needed to reproduce the problem.

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to previous question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.