Old Codger
> TB 3.1 continues to freeze for 5 to 10 seconds randomly. Again, are
> there any sincere suggestions to remedy this persistent irritant?
>
> Old Codger
The reasons for the problem can be many, not only Tbird.
Why do you think it is a Tbird issue?
Have you checked your network/ISP connections?
What type of connection do you use?
No other program does this.
Yes, checked all that.
Cable internet; no problems.
And it happens on Linux as well.
And no other program on this system shows the same symptoms.
And I'm on cable internet.
Mind you, I'm using a 64-bit version so TB will probably shift the blame
elsewhere.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy
off the wall - tools>settings>advanced>config editor>
filter for prefetch
change options from what you see...
Because many more people have raised this same issue (and you can add me
to the list). I am running on 32-bit Win XP Pro.
Your 'off the wall' suggesions further down the thread are a bit too
off-the-wall, as they suggest fiddling with about:config defaults which
obviously are common to most TB3.1 users.
If you close Thunderbird, then start Thunderbird in Safe Mode, does the
problem still occur? For instructions on starting in Safe Mode, see
<http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode>.
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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia
When it freezes have you checked in Task manager to see if any process
is using a lot of CPU? I see freezes and it is always MsMpEng.exe
(Microsoft Security Essentials).
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jelv
Doesn't explain me getting the same problem with TB3 in Linux. Frustrating
to be typing a post and checking to see what I've written and found half a
line missing and then sit and wait for the darned thing to catch up with my
two-fingered typing.
You may notice I'm not now using TB as it's got its old troubles with
corrupted newsgroup storage and just seizes up totally - using all of one
processor - when accessing this one. I've got fed up with deleting files
every week to sort the thing out. It's been a problem (feature?) since
Netscape 1.2N and I would have hoped it would have been rectified by now.
It no longer freezes or slows down like molasses on a cold day. Of
course, no I have anti-virus in a compromised state...
Old Codger
D'oh!
Thanks for the suggestion - it's looking much better now!
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jelv
Never noticed this behavior with TB, but it happens all the time with
FF. I toggled the FF prefetch entry. Knock wood!
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Cheers, Bev
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who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
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FYI https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Controlling_DNS_prefetching
In Firefox I would expect disabling prefetch to have bad effect, unless
you are experiencing something like
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475603 Lots of timeouts for
DNS requests with Netgear Router WGR614, and stylesheet/css rendering
problems
In Thunderbird, you should not be seeing any ill-effects due to bug
545407 and bug 544745 - essentially prefect is not used.
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http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing
http://www.spreadthunderbird.com/aff/165/
The Real Bev, did that change help?