Delays opening web links from TB in FF

[Steve Holden]

Quite often when I click on a web link in a mail message or, it seems
particularly, on a link in an RSS feed article, Thunderbird locks up for
several (up to ten) seconds until Firefox, running and already
displaying other tabs, decides it's going to display the page.

I've used Wireshark to confirm there doesn't appear to be any related
network activity during this time, the Task Manager doesn't reveal any
sudden bursts of CPU activity, and I have disabled all add-ons without
identifying a culprit.

I can't find anything in Bugzilla (I am reluctant to post a bug since
each time I do it gets reassigned as a copy of an existing report ...
:-) . Is this known behavior, and more importantly is there a known fix
if it is? It's beginning to drive me crazy!

Thunderbird version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)
Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3)
Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

regards
Steve
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[Nir]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Quite often when I click on a web link in a mail message or, it seems
> particularly, on a link in an RSS feed article, Thunderbird locks up
> for several (up to ten) seconds until Firefox, running and already
> displaying other tabs, decides it's going to display the page.

Not sure whether it will work .
1. Open Explorer
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
3. Select the File Types tab
4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window
6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and click Edit
7. Clear the check for DDE above the DDE message box (which should
contain "%1" or similar)
8. Click OK, Click OK
9. Repeat for File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
and FTP

[Steve Holden]

Thanks, that appears to have done the trick. I Googled forever, where on
earth did you come across this piece of esoterica?

[Herb]

On 31.05.2007 17:58 UK Time, Steve Holden wrote:
> Nir wrote:
>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>> Quite often when I click on a web link in a mail message or, it seems
>>> particularly, on a link in an RSS feed article, Thunderbird locks up
>>> for several (up to ten) seconds until Firefox, running and already
>>> displaying other tabs, decides it's going to display the page.
>>
>> Not sure whether it will work .
>> 1. Open Explorer
>> 2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
>> 3. Select the File Types tab
>> 4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: URL:HyperText Transfer
>> Protocol
>> 5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window
>> 6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and click Edit
>> 7. Clear the check for DDE above the DDE message box (which should
>> contain "%1" or similar)
>> 8. Click OK, Click OK
>> 9. Repeat for File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
>> and FTP
>
> Thanks, that appears to have done the trick. I Googled forever, where on
> earth did you come across this piece of esoterica?

Hi Nir,

you are a genius!

The procedure you suggested also appears to have solved my annoying
delay problem that was apparently introduce when I tried to make links
in contained in Word documents open in FF - see recent long thread
"Following links from within MS Word opens IE"

Thank you!!!

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