Howdy, I have been noticing (Linux RH 6.2, Mozilla 20010630 and earlier) that reading certain messages causes the mouse to suddenly behave very sluggishly. For example, in the netscape.public.mozilla.performance group, the message "Load-time test results (06/27/2001)" triggers this behavior. What happens is that once I select the message and it loads, I can move the mouse around in the message display, summary, and Mail Folders area, and the mouse behaves just fine. But if I move the mouse up and slide it over the buttons and menus at the top, it suddenly becomes very slow and jerky (this on a 700MHz Athlon). This behavior appears to be connected somehow to window size. If I make the window much wider, the problem goes away. Similarly, for messages with attachments that appear to be okay, making the window narrower will usually trigger the behavior. The kind of attachment makes no difference. Even attachments of plain text forwarded emails can trigger it. Also, I can sometimes see at the bottom of the message display window that the lower inside window border is shifting up and down slightly, and similarly I can sometimes see the text at the bottom of the window shifting up and down slightly. Occasionally this can be more than slight. For example, again in the group n.p.m.performance, with the message "4/23 performance meeting agenda". If I set the window size so that I can see the Mozilla image and one line of text below it, and set the right side of the window so the it covers a small amount of the right side of the image, then moving the mouse around over the buttons and menus at the top cause the image and text below it to jump up and down as much as an inch. Occasionally, the text above it jumps up and down briefly, but most of the time it remains where it is. -- My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
