Unexplained temporary freezes in Thunderbird Fedora 13

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On 06/14/2010 03:10 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:

>>   
> I moved to T-Bird from Claws (on Linux of course) a few years ago. I
> generally use the version on T-Bird that is on the current Fedora repo.
> The freeze condition that I see is just an annoying pain because it
> occurs while I am typing. it is possible that the issue may not be
> directly related to thunderbird, but possibly something with the nVidia
> driver, but my gut feel at the moment is that T-Bird is doing something
> that affects echoing the keystrokes. I need to do a bit more testing and
> see if I can find the culprit.
> 

  Things to look at:

    (1) Offline storage .. unlikely but possible if slow local disk.

    (2) Try latest 3.1.1.pre from upstream - I have no problems with it
(32 bit only fyi) ..


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