On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:52:05 +0000, Jon Scott wrote: > Using Mozilla 1.1 (with Orbit 3+1 skin) on WinME machine with PIII-600, > 256MB RAM, 4GB free on 10GB HDD. > > Is it me or does anyone else notice this? I keep Mozilla mail up and > running 24 hours a day (I have a cable modem connection). If the app is > minimized and I'm doing work on other stuff for a couple of hours, then I > bring up Mozilla Mail from my task bar, it's extremely sluggish for 5 > seconds or more. It's even slow when selecting a message to read, but after > that it speeds up normally. I assume it has to "refresh" everything back in > memory but this is ridiculous. This even happens if it's the only thing > running and I leave my machine alone for some time. > > Probably a no biggie for some of you but it's driving me nuts, almost to the > point where I'm going back to Outlook Express.
This sounds more like an operating system 'failure'/'feature' ... whatever you wanna call it. Well i would say this 5 seconds are a perfect time to think about changing to a real operating system with intelligent caching and virtual memory algorithms. -- Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience! Manuel.Streuhofer /*AT*/ manito /*DOT*/ at
