WinXP Home, SP3, all updates; SM 1.1.19, no add-ons apart from standard
plugins (Default, QT, Acrobat, Flash, WMP, DRM). Have installed SM 2.x
twice (2.0.0 and 2.0.4), but have uninstalled because of NG behaviour
(Browser and Mail are fine). As far as possible, ALL settings in SM 2.x
are the same as in SM 1.x.
1. Very slow - seems to be related to anti-virus? When MS Security
Essentials is installed, Task Manager shows SM and MSSE alternately
ramping up to 100% CPU (while the other ramps down) even when all SM is
doing is re-checking for new messages and even when there ARE no new
messages. For the news.mozilla.org server (others are similar), this
process takes (typically) 90 seconds (sometimes several minutes) to
check 14 groups. With MSSE uninstalled (replaced by Avira), the process
takes around 45 seconds. With SM 1.x, the process takes from 0.1 to 5
seconds, with no observable AV interaction.
2. Two servers I subscribe to (Albasani and Datemas) require sign-in;
in SM 2.x, two sign-ins are required (only one in SM 1.x).
3. The messages in the Status Bar (bottom right) do not compute:
3.1 "There are no new messages on the server" shows up before the server
has been contacted, and goes away while the server is being checked -
whether there are new messages or not.
3.2 SM 1.x shows, for example, "Checking newsgroup N of 14 on
news.mozilla.org for new messages" (where N runs from 1 to 14); SM 2.x
does not show this.
4. The Progress Bar (bottom right) does not compute; it takes up to 30
seconds for the space for the bar to show up, then after another 15
seconds or so, the moving-to-and-fro partial bar appears. The full bar,
growing from left to right, never shows up at all.
5. About 40% of the time, all the lists of newsgroups under each server
are expanded when I first click on the Mail & Newsgroups icon; I always
close them before I exit SM.
Is there anything I can do to change any of this? Is any of the above a
known problem that may get fixed in future SM updates?
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