Chris Nelson wrote: > What I don't understand is this: Unless the mail application is open, > you don't get notifications that you have mail (unlike 4.x). So, why in > the world does moz have the little animated popup telling me that I've > got mail if it's only usable when the mail app is open? Isn't there some > sorta service separate from the mail application that can do checking > and notifying of incoming mail? > > --chris >
Well, the unix answer is that it would be severe overkill to have mozilla check mail if mail isn't open cause their are applets that use less than 1MB of memory and can check your mail even when Mozilla is completely closed...
