Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird 24 non-responsiveness (was Re: Orca uses much cpu on my machine)

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I think I have found some more relevant info.
I am testing various thunderbird versions including aurora and nightly 
channels.
I am using two imap accounts where there are more than 10000 messages in 
the inbox.
The initial sync is withouth a problem but here are the settings I am 
tweaking.
In the edit menu Preferences on the general tab I do have "when daily 
launches show the start page in the message area" unchecked. On the 
advanced tab under reading & display I do have checked automatically 
mark messages as read after displaying for 5 seconds and open messages 
in a new window.
In the accounts settings for all accounds on the synchronization & 
storage page I do have unchecked keep messages for this account on this 
computer. And I have set synchronize the most recent 30 days.

When the problem first occurs I can play with these settings and even 
revert them all to their defaults but still the issue remains for me.

I guess this might have something to do with a lot of messages in the 
message list. New sync is always fine because the message list is empty 
I assume.
Thunderbird 17 is fine, thunderbird 24, thunderbird 26 and thunderbird 
27 are all affected.

Greetings

Peter

On 09.10.2013 10:31, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi Peter, some questions.
> Are you using arch linux?
> The accounts are pop or imap?
> How many messages in your inbox folder?
> Thanks.
>
> On 10/09/2013 04:36 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have also been able to build and install the latest master branch of
> > orca. It partially fixed garbled texts of live region anouncements but
> > unfortunatelly the lag is there.
> > I am going to try to write exactly how I can reproduce the issue maybe
> > it will help a bit.
> >
> > I have multiple accounts setup let's call them account 1 and account 2.
> > Account 1 is at the top of the folder treeview and account 2 is below
> > account 1. So while they both are collapsed arrowing up from account 2 I
> > can move directly to account 1.
> > When I start thunderbird inbox for the account 2 is selected inside the
> > folder treeview and focus is placed inside the message list. Message
> > preview is not displayed and message filter is displayed. Other settings
> > in the view menu are not changed.
> > Here are the steps to make it hang and freeze:
> > - press shift+tab to go to the message filter edit field,
> > - press shift+tab once more to go to the folders treeview,
> > - press left arrow multiple times until you realize account 2 is 
> > collapsed,
> > - press up arrow to move to account 1 and notice it's collabsed too,
> > - press right arrow key to expand account 1,
> > - press down arrow to go to the inbox for account 1.
> > Now if you press any key e.g. the tab key to go to the message filter
> > edit field you will hear nothing but key echo as the keypresses are
> > anounced. If you are lucky you can alt+tab to another app and work there
> > however even returning back into thunderbird after a while does not
> > return access to thunderbird back. If you are back in thunderbird, you
> > can press super+alt+s to switch off and then switch back on the screen
> > reader. After getting screen reader on utterance spoken, you will have
> > to wait a little while and then curent control focused in thunderbird
> > gets announced automagically and you will be able to continue as normal
> > until you change account in thunderbird or move to another folder in the
> > folders treeview which is not a child of the folder you are currently 
> > in.
> >
> > I know this is somewhat complicated but I can always reproduce the issue
> > by following these steps.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08.10.2013 16:24, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > > Sent in PVT.
> > > let me know if I sent in the correct way.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > On 10/08/2013 10:56 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > > Hey José.
> > > >
> > > > On 10/08/2013 09:39 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > > > > That did not solve the problem.
> > > > > The lag persists.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not surprised. Thanks for trying/verifying, though!
> > > >
> > > > Could you please send me a debug.out? I just tried on a 
> > > > six-year-oldish
> > > > laptop with an i3 and some mail folders with quite a few messages 
> > > > (e.g.
> > > > Sent items has more than 11,000). I tried slow arrowing, crazy-fast
> > > > arrowing, etc. I'm not seeing anything which would amount to 
> > > > significant
> > > > lag. This is with Thunderbird 24 and F20 (i.e. GNOME 3.10).
> > > >
> > > > Also, since you said the problem is not present in Thunderbird 17,
> > > > getting a comparative debug.out might be handy, if that is not too 
> > > > much
> > > > trouble.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again for your help hunting this bug!
> > > > --joanie
> > > >
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