Hi,
about the Search Mail/News Messages feature:
Search performance is so slow that it's really not acceptable.
Especially when searching large mail folders (e.g. from a mailing list)
My test: An email folder containing 11000 messages. I would search for
messages from a specific sender, which would get about 1000 hits.
Communicator 4.x would complete the search in 8 seconds.
Mozilla 0.8 would complete the search in 3 minutes 25 seconds.
Why is this *so* slow? When searching for headers, does Mozilla search
the actual mail file instead of the summary file? I'm not asking for
NS4-like performance. Make it three times as slow as it was in NS4 and
I'm happy. But in the current state the search feature is unusable for me.
Other comments on the search feature:
There's no "Open Message Folder" button, like in NS4. This button is
very useful, for example for locating the entire thread the found
message belongs to.
Cosmetic details:
- If I enter a search expression, and press Enter, nothing happens.
Instead, I have to click the 'Search' button. It would more convenient
to be able to start the seach with Enter, like it was in Communicator 4.x
- If I open the Search Messages window, and immediately click on the
dropdown box which displays "Subject" by default, I get an empty
dropdown box. If I close and reopen the box, it displays the menu items
(Sender, Date, etc) correctly.
- (The following isn't that important): While Mozilla is searching,
there's no real feedback to the user that it is actually doing
something. There's no progress indicator and the status bar displays
"Document: Done". The only way to tell it is searching is to look at the
'search' button which changes to 'stop'. It would be better to at least
have a message 'Searching...' in the status bar, or, even better, a
progress indicator.
bye,
Tillmann
