datapoint - the wiki page has been public for months with, and still does have, a notice that improvements are welcome. Anyone can edit it, or suggest improvements in multiple ways and venues.
tanstaafl wrote:The link to a leak monitor add-on on that wiki page points to a Firefox add-on. There is no corresponding add-on for Thunderbird on the Mozilla Add-ons web site. I looked on the authors web page and the only reference to Thunderbird was a "This version also claims Thunderbird compatibility." on a very old version in the version history . The actual file is leak_monitor-0.4.5-fx.xpi , which doesn't follow the format I'm used to seeing for add-ons that work with Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.
I took a quick look at Performance:Leak Tools. As I scanned each of the suggestions my reactions are browser-centric, requires debug builds, Perl, or a commercial product, doesn't work under Windows..... There might be something there a technically included windows user can do using the existing Thunderbird bits but its not easy to find.
good points. revised. (note: to date, gloda has no known memory leaks, so the item has been there only for the technically inclined, and forthe unlikely event that a leak is suspected)
tanstaafl wrote:The biggest problem I have with the wiki page is that it expects you to read and understand lots of bug reports ...
Ah, you must be referring to step 14. Fair point. Suggestions?
tanstaafl wrote:and if none of them help and you have already disabled indexing (windows integration, IMAP and global search) and tried safe mode its basically just asking you to enable MSGDB:5,timestamp logging and then file a bug report.
What additions or changes would you advise in this area to help the user?