637147 - slow to launch

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Donald Belcher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; GTB6.6; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1.7

After updating from previous version to 3.1.7, my launch to inbox is now 6-8 seconds, almost 4 times slower than two weeks ago.  I switched to Thunderbird for its launch speed, now that disappeared.  Please advise.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch and wait
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Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

was your upgrade two weeks ago from v3.1.6?
or version 2?

6-8 seconds is not super long for version 3, especially depending on your system and thunderbird profile. That said, these things can impact your launch speed:
* add-ons
* antivirus software monitoring  your profile directory
* large inbox or junk folders - minimize the number of messages there
* compact your folders on a regular basis
* periodically defrag your disk
* make sure you have enough memory

two references to check:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keep_it_working_%28Thunderbird%29
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

no response from Donald :(

If you think you have issues to work through, please see http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/

If you have an identifiable bug, please reply to comment 1 and describe your machine specs.