"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:hndpev$2om...@digitalmars.com... > > Step 2 is another huge reason of annoyance with both Thunderbird and > Opera. As far as I can tell, if they are downloading headers in the > background, user actions have bottom priority. I want to see a message, I > click, and then I wait and wait and wait. It's like a worker who can't > tend to an urgent task because of doing drawer cleanup! The right behavior > is to pause everything that's going on if that would slow down the user. >
That sort of thing is a big pet peeve for me too (Maybe I'm just being pessemistic, but it seems to be all too common lately). It's definitely a dominant charactaristic of Mozilla in general though, not just Thunderbird. Literally at least half the time I use FireFox, there will be some point where I'll have something loading in one tab, so I'll try to switch to another tab so I can do something useful while I'm waiting, but then it won't switch tabs (or have any responsiveness at all, for that matter) until the first tab finishes loading. *Then* it'll switch tabs even though by then it's become pointless. I *really* wish I could find a web browser that fixes those responsiveness problems AND has a normal non-skinned UI, FireFox's lack of any useless always-resident background services, AND FireFox's AdBlock Plus, NoScript, TabMixPlus, BetterPrivacy, and ideally DownloadHelper and DownThemAll as well...but I've yet to find anything that comes even close. I've been tempted to try to hack up SRWare Iron (ie, the only Chromium implementation I allow to exist on my computer) to do just that, but, heck, I sure as hell don't have the time :(
