Thunderbird's slow scrolling

[J. Limon]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:17:48PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM, J. Limon <jlimon at eml.cc> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:56:58PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:24 PM, J. Limon <jlimon at eml.cc> wrote:
> >> > Roy Smith wrote:
> >> >> J. Limon wrote:
> >> >>> Anyone else experience that Thunderbird is extremely slow when
> >> >>> scrolling through an Inbox? Perhaps THIS inbox? (The one you're
> >> >>> looking at.)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> For me, when I'm on a mailing list inbox, scrolling through the
> >> >>> message list is painful at best. The messages themselves load fine
> >> >>> because I have Thunderbird download all messages locally to save
> >> >>> bandwidth (I'm using fastmail.fm IMAP) but the message list column's
> >> >>> scrolling is dreadfully slow.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Google says I'm not the only one, just wondering if anyone has any
> >> >>> insight
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm not experiencing this problem.  How do you have your inbox set
> >> >> up?  Do all of your inbound emails go there?  Have you though about
> >> >> setting up message rules and filtering out the emails from this
> >> >> mailing list and put them in a separate folder?  That's how I have it
> >> >> set up.  Also when was the last time you compacted your mail folders?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I'm using IMAP, set to download all my mail for "offline" viewing to
> >> > save on IMAP bandwidth.
> >> >
> >> > We're not talking a huge mailbox here.. I delete my mailing list stuff
> >> > every few weeks.. it's the application itself. Any time a scrollbar is
> >> > present in the messages column, it's VERY jaggedy. The other window
> >> > columns scroll fine (such as the compose window I am typing in.)
> >>
> >> Thunderbird seems plenty fast on all my systems, and I use IMAP to
> >> connect to about six different email servers.
> >>
> >> Try turning off the feature to download mail for offline viewing. I
> >> don't really see how that can SAVE on IMAP bandwidth, because it will
> >> have to download every message and attachment you receive, whether you
> >> look at it or not. On an active list like this one there are probably
> >> lots of messages you never want to open.
> >
> > Well, I'm pretty sure it's the application itself. PLEASE NOTE, I was using the 3 column effect so ALL the messages were being listed from top to bottom in the application whereas most people only show 4-10. When I switched back to "Classic view" only showing a few emails, it scrolled a lot faster, but this is not what I want.
> >
> 
> Not sure what you're describing -- on my system "classic view" has
> about 15 messages listed in the top-right panel. I tried switching to
> "vertical view" with no change in scrolling speed. (Of course maybe at
> some point I dragged the panel to expand the message list -- if I want
> to actually read a message I open it in a new window).

I would take this at face value had others not experienced the same.
 
> If you have scrolling issues on other applications it could be an X
> driver issue (the "jaggedy" scroll area might indicate that too).
> 
> OH and I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. Are you by chance running a
> pre-release version of 9.04 Jaunty?

Yes, I am using Jaunty but I experienced this in previous releases.

> > I "solved" this entire issue by switching to Mutt, heh.
> 
> If Mutt works better for you, then that's all the better. You can
> ditch X entirely and save the heartache and startup time whenever you
> log in.

Why would I want to do that? :)

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