I agree, though we have made lot of improvements from Netscape 6.0 to 6.1. We are planning to do more performance work on this issue, in the next major release. Please feel free to log bugs using bugzilla.
Navin Wendell Nichols wrote: > I use mozilla 0.9.5 on my Win2k notebook and my linux desktop. On the > desktop (my personal mail) performance is acceptable. On the notebook > (where my work mail is stored and there is lots more of it) performance > is very poor. To delete a message from my in basket takes 15 seconds, > during which time the browser and all other mozilla windows are > unresponsive. > Sending a message takes a similar amount of time, as does refiling a > message. > I have given 10M to the memory cache, and the mail folder is on the > notebooks's local harddrive. > > The windows mail client is much slower than the linux one, and an order > of magnitude slower than Netscape 4.78. > > During the time Mozilla is unresponsive there is a great deal of disk > activity. Enough to copy most mail from one dir to another... > > Any ideas, stories of comiseration etc? > > Wendell Nichols > Amdahl Software ltd. >
