Thanks for the info. To reemphasize the big problems: a) even at modest amounts of CPU, it sucks battery life, b) at modest amounts (above 5-10%?, I forget the range) it impacts responsivesness when getting new mail, c) to make it worse we have (or at least have had) situations where the progress meter lingers, and even sometimes never goes away due to other brokenness so the CPU usage can be continuous.
(In reply to Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) from comment #58) > ... I think the best solution, if any, is to chase the toolkit people to fix > their widget. So far after 10 years in bug 854093 that hasn't worked out so well for linux. (or do we need something else?) Does someone know stransky or do we have some other friend? On the windows side this required aceman and our friend Neil in bug 658829 (ref bug 791535 comment 19). But even there we still might have an edge case per bug 658829 comment 97. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109943 Title: Thunderbird: high CPU usage from progress bars Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird When sending a simple and short email with Thunderbird via SMTP the CPU is used intensively. This seems not to be necessary. If the sending failed and an corresponding error message dialog appears, the CPU is still being used. When pressing ok to close the error dialog the CPU is fine. This suggests it might be related specifically to the progress bar. Such behavior is especially annoying on a laptop where you can hear the CPU usage because of a starting fan. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/109943/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
