Re: Email: slow typing while composing
On 8/17/2014 5:21 AM, flyguy wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 8/16/2014 7:48 PM: flyguy wrote: flyguy wrote, On 8/7/2014 5:12 PM: My wife is experiencing a problem while typing an email: the characters sometimes do not appear when she types them, but are delayed as much as several seconds. Seamonkey is typically the only application she's running. It happens several times week now. We're not sure when it started, but likely some time this year. We're both using SM 2.26 on similar Win XP machines. I rarely have it happen to me. Does anyone have an idea about the cause and how to fix it? Is she really the only one with this problem? Well, maybe we'll get lucky when we get new computers in a month or tow. I have a similar experience on a pretty fast machine -- I can be composing an email, and at random intervals SM suddenly stops displaying what I type, then catches up after a couple of seconds and goes back to normal (it remembers up to about 15-20 of the characters I typed). It reminds me of what happens if I'm watching a video when SM checks mail -- the vid will freeze for a couple of seconds (audio continues) and then resume (dropping all those frames). With all the RAM and processing power I have on this Win7 machine, it should be able to do two things at once, don'tcha think? What happens if she sets SM not to check/download mail automatically? Neither the POP or the IMAP account check automatically. She has to request new emails. I'm disappointed a new, much faster machine can have the same issues. She's hoping a new machine will take care of the problem, and she'll be heartbroken if it has the same problem as her 8 year old XP machine (we're getting new computers to dump XP, except keeping the XP laptop to run some legacy programs). It might also be caused by SeaMonkey saving the message as a draft, especially when you save drafts on the server. Please check the setting under Preferences - Composition and/or under Account Settings - Copies Folders. (Exact path to settings may differ, because I don't have SeaMonkey running at the moment.) Onno ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Email: slow typing while composing
Onno Ekker wrote: On 8/17/2014 5:21 AM, flyguy wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 8/16/2014 7:48 PM: flyguy wrote: flyguy wrote, On 8/7/2014 5:12 PM: My wife is experiencing a problem while typing an email: the characters sometimes do not appear when she types them, but are delayed as much as several seconds. Seamonkey is typically the only application she's running. It happens several times week now. We're not sure when it started, but likely some time this year. We're both using SM 2.26 on similar Win XP machines. I rarely have it happen to me. Does anyone have an idea about the cause and how to fix it? Is she really the only one with this problem? Well, maybe we'll get lucky when we get new computers in a month or tow. I have a similar experience on a pretty fast machine -- I can be composing an email, and at random intervals SM suddenly stops displaying what I type, then catches up after a couple of seconds and goes back to normal (it remembers up to about 15-20 of the characters I typed). It reminds me of what happens if I'm watching a video when SM checks mail -- the vid will freeze for a couple of seconds (audio continues) and then resume (dropping all those frames). With all the RAM and processing power I have on this Win7 machine, it should be able to do two things at once, don'tcha think? What happens if she sets SM not to check/download mail automatically? Neither the POP or the IMAP account check automatically. She has to request new emails. I'm disappointed a new, much faster machine can have the same issues. She's hoping a new machine will take care of the problem, and she'll be heartbroken if it has the same problem as her 8 year old XP machine (we're getting new computers to dump XP, except keeping the XP laptop to run some legacy programs). It might also be caused by SeaMonkey saving the message as a draft, especially when you save drafts on the server. Please check the setting under Preferences - Composition and/or under Account Settings - Copies Folders. In my case, all drafts are saved locally, and for the 1-2 KB plain-text messages I compose, there shouldn't be any noticeable lag. Certainly not the 5-10 seconds I'm seeing, which is comparable to the delay I experience when my 100 MB MS Word file saves autorecovery info every 10 minutes. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Email: slow typing while composing
I wonder if the real-time spellchecker is causing the slowdowns? I have seen that happened on slow machines. -- Still we live meanly, like ants;... like pygmies we fight with cranes;... Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify... simplify... --Henry Thoreau /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Email: slow typing while composing
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: flyguy wrote: flyguy wrote, On 8/7/2014 5:12 PM: My wife is experiencing a problem while typing an email: the characters sometimes do not appear when she types them, but are delayed as much as several seconds. Seamonkey is typically the only application she's running. It happens several times week now. We're not sure when it started, but likely some time this year. We're both using SM 2.26 on similar Win XP machines. I rarely have it happen to me. Does anyone have an idea about the cause and how to fix it? Is she really the only one with this problem? Well, maybe we'll get lucky when we get new computers in a month or tow. I have a similar experience on a pretty fast machine -- I can be composing an email, and at random intervals SM suddenly stops displaying what I type, then catches up after a couple of seconds and goes back to normal (it remembers up to about 15-20 of the characters I typed). It reminds me of what happens if I'm watching a video when SM checks mail -- the vid will freeze for a couple of seconds (audio continues) and then resume (dropping all those frames). With all the RAM and processing power I have on this Win7 machine, it should be able to do two things at once, don'tcha think? What happens if she sets SM not to check/download mail automatically? I don't have my SM set to check mail automatically and it makes no difference. I have this problem consistently and thought until now it was a Windows service interfering somehow,as I've had other pauses or lock ups when the cursor is rendered useless for a short period. Since it all still works, I haven't complained.:) [Win7, 6GB DDR3, 640GB HDD] bj ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Email: slow typing while composing
Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 8/17/2014 5:43 AM: Onno Ekker wrote: On 8/17/2014 5:21 AM, flyguy wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 8/16/2014 7:48 PM: flyguy wrote: flyguy wrote, On 8/7/2014 5:12 PM: My wife is experiencing a problem while typing an email: the characters sometimes do not appear when she types them, but are delayed as much as several seconds. Seamonkey is typically the only application she's running. It happens several times week now. We're not sure when it started, but likely some time this year. We're both using SM 2.26 on similar Win XP machines. I rarely have it happen to me. Does anyone have an idea about the cause and how to fix it? Is she really the only one with this problem? Well, maybe we'll get lucky when we get new computers in a month or tow. I have a similar experience on a pretty fast machine -- I can be composing an email, and at random intervals SM suddenly stops displaying what I type, then catches up after a couple of seconds and goes back to normal (it remembers up to about 15-20 of the characters I typed). It reminds me of what happens if I'm watching a video when SM checks mail -- the vid will freeze for a couple of seconds (audio continues) and then resume (dropping all those frames). With all the RAM and processing power I have on this Win7 machine, it should be able to do two things at once, don'tcha think? What happens if she sets SM not to check/download mail automatically? Neither the POP or the IMAP account check automatically. She has to request new emails. I'm disappointed a new, much faster machine can have the same issues. She's hoping a new machine will take care of the problem, and she'll be heartbroken if it has the same problem as her 8 year old XP machine (we're getting new computers to dump XP, except keeping the XP laptop to run some legacy programs). It might also be caused by SeaMonkey saving the message as a draft, especially when you save drafts on the server. Please check the setting under Preferences - Composition and/or under Account Settings - Copies Folders. In my case, all drafts are saved locally, and for the 1-2 KB plain-text messages I compose, there shouldn't be any noticeable lag. Certainly not the 5-10 seconds I'm seeing, which is comparable to the delay I experience when my 100 MB MS Word file saves autorecovery info every 10 minutes. My wife's messages are also typically short, and the drafts are saved locally. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Seamonkey as .deb package
Hello. I am hoping that I have not previously posted this query to this list. As the Debian Project has omitted iceape, its derivative of Seamonkey, from Debian 7, I am wondering what is the prospect of Seamonkey being released as a .deb package for installation on Debian 7. I had tried installing the Seamonkey tarball, according to the published instructions, and could not then get Seamonkey to work. As a .deb package, software is usually installed, with all dependencies taken care of, and the launch link, added to the appropriate desktop menu, so it makes it all, relatively simple. The system upon which I was unable to get Seamonkey to work (and I am not sure that it properly installed), is Debian 7 amd64 LXDE. I note that, on the web page at http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/ the download for MS Windows, is a .exe installer, so I suppose that what I am seeking, is the equivalent, as a .deb package for Debian 7 amd64 . Thank you in anticipation. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means. - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts, written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
