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.
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