59165 - download of newsgroups headers takes too long

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[matthias tarasiewicz]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
BuildID:    20001103

when trying to subscribe to newsgroups, mozilla seems to download all the 
header information every time i open the subscribe window -- solution: mozilla 
should store the information and then only check for new groups if requested

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select "subscribe to newsgroups" in the news/ mail part
2. see for yourself
3.

Actual Results:  this shows a problem with storing the header information- the 
performance is much too slow compared with other newsreaders 

Expected Results:  it should be fixed (maybe mozilla should save all the header 
information locally and then search this local file and only check for new 
newsgroups if requested by the user)

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I agree. Mozilla is too slow in initially loading the newsgroup
list and when the subcribe menu is engaged thereafter.

I am sure, though, that this is a known problem and there must
be a prior bug for which this is a duplicate.
Also this is not a localization or internationalization bug.
To putterman ... and mail QA people (esther and laurel)

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

This time really sending it to scott.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

it's actually pretty fast now.
btw: there's another bug for the support of "new" newsgroup. Can remember the
bug number.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This seems to be okay for me, although we have a bug out on larger servers'
subscribe window taking a long time to appear.  Matthias, is this much better
than when you filed it?

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

We don't download headers in the subscribe window, we're just building the list
of newsgroups from the server.  This seems much better to me, too (than when I
first started in November of 2000).  We also have bug 73501 outstanding, which
you might want to take a look at.  Bug 40260 covers New newsgroups appearing in
the Subscribe window.

Verified.