On 06/14/2010 12:04 PM, Steven Stern wrote: > On 06/14/2010 11:50 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> In the past, Thunderbird would freeze temporarily while waiting to >> obtain a GPG key or to load some graphics. However in Thunderbird 3.04 >> on Fedora 13 (x86_64) I'm seeing some issues where the screen goes dark, >> even while I am composing. After a short while, it cathes up. My system >> is an x86_64 system with 6GB RAM and an AMD quad core processor. I have >> 2 sources I get email from, (1) gmail via IMAP, (2) my ISP via POP. >> AFAIK, Thunderbird downloads new email in the background, and has not >> affected the performance. What is annoying is that this freeze occurs >> while composing email, so that the other things, like waiting for a GPG >> key to be downloaded or waiting for a very large email body to display >> is not in play. I'm looking to see if anyone else is experiencing >> similar issues for corroboration purposes. For instance, I encountered >> it this morning before leaving for work. My system was relatively idle >> with firefox and Gnome-terminal running. I think I had about 3 >> relatively non-dynamic websites on firefox at the time. >> >> >> > Try turning off global indexing. > > EDIT -> PREFERENCES -> ADVANCED -> GENERAL > I only see the "hang" when I upgrade T-Bird. Once I put up with the eons that the first access takes, it's pretty easy to live with. -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -- Ed Howdershelt (Author) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines