Hi
Recently, I've been having severe difficulties with TB running
extremely slow, lockups when composing emails and general non-
responsive behaviour. TB start-up can be up to 85 seconds. Navigation
through menus, folders and messages is slow and TB shows heavy CPU
usage, making other applications slow. Through some testing today, I
think I've narrowed down to the Yahoo extension as being the culprit,
although I could be wrong.

I'm running TB 2.0.0.23 on Windows XP Pro.
Extensions
Mozilla Talkback 2.0.0.9
WebMail 1.3.3
WM-Gmail 0.6.4 - set to check mail on startup and then every 2 minutes
WM-Hotmail 1.2.24 - set to NOT check mail on startup and then every 60
minutes
WM-Yahoo 1.4.6 - set to check mail on startup and then every 3 minutes
Xpunge 0.3

I have TB checking one account for each service, ISP, Gmail, Yahoo and
Hotmail. 4 email accounts with their associated folders, 3 of which
are handled by WebMail.

There is nothing in the error console other than normal startup
messages from Xpunge. My server settings have been as noted for months
with no issues. Other than updating the WebMail versions as they've
been posted, I've made no other changes. This seems to have begun with
the latest batch of updates for WM-Yahoo. I have manually compacted
all folders and deleted and recreated all indexes.

Testing.
Opened TB in Safe Mode. It open with no hesitations and checked the
ISP POP account.
All folders and messages were instantly accessible. Everything loaded
quickly.
I disabled all extensions and restarted TB normally.

Same behaviour as running in Safe Mode (no surprise). Began testing
startup with various combinations of existing extensions disabled/
enabled.

Enabling only Xpunge and Talkback resulted in startup times equaling
Safe Mode. They don't seeem to be a factor but I have tested both with
the various combinations of WebMail. At no time, did having them
enabled/disabled seem to make any difference.

Naturally, enabling WebMail did result in slower startup times, that's
to be expected, but all other TB behaviour was normal. However, the
real difference came with enabling the WM-Yahoo extension. Startup
times almost doubled and navigation between menus/folders/messages
slowed dramatically. Leaving WM-Yahoo as the only extension DISABLED
resulted in TB running about as normal as expected.

I re-enabled WM-Yahoo but changed the server settings so not to check
Yahoo on startup. That makes a difference. Startup was quick and menu/
folder/message navigation was quick. However, when it came time for TB
to check Yahoo for messages, the slow behaviour remanifested itself
and continued. Could it be there is some buffer that is not releasing?
Or a loop that is not exiting properly? As I mentioned earlier, this
behaviour started with the last version or two of YM-Yahoo. I was
running the various betas before 1.4.6 and I don't recall exactly when
it started.

I thank you very kindly for your time. I hope I've narrowed this
sufficiently and not leading you on a wild goose chase.
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