Daily Build Thread 2007-07-18 Through 2007-07-24

Posted July 18th, 2007, 5:07 pm

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Checkins This Week

[2007-07-18 10:21]# 387111 [Thunderbird] - Crash on startup with existing Profile [Win]
[2007-07-18 11:10]# 306907 [Toolkit] - Build libsqlite as a standard name separate shared library. [All]
[2007-07-18 14:55]# 386002 [Toolkit] - Move tryToClose calls on shutdown [All]
[2007-07-18 20:11]# 387677 [Core] - "Check for new message every x minutes" stopped working for POP3 [Lin]
[2007-07-19 13:31]# 320102 [Thunderbird] - File - Save As - Template menu item does nothing for an existing message [All]
[2007-07-19 13:59]# 386855 [Thunderbird] - attachment file name stripped of consecutive spaces [All]
[2007-07-19 14:10]# 320102 [Thunderbird] - File - Save As - Template menu item does nothing for an existing message [All]
[2007-07-19 15:25]# 387712 [Core] - Add a helper function to nsIMessenger to allow easy listening to attachment saving [Mac]
[2007-07-20 13:30]# 388346 [Core] - nsMoveCoalescerCopyListener leaks on filter copy operations [Win]
[2007-07-20 13:36]# 383962 [Mozilla Application Suite] - trash empty doesn't seem to work [Win]
[2007-07-21 18:40]# 389038 [Core] - Crash viewing a newsgroup with several images [Win]
[2007-07-23 17:12]# 388103 [Thunderbird:Build Config] - Version/config bumps for Tb 2005 [All]
[2007-07-23 18:20]# 388878 [Thunderbird:Build Config] - Breakpad is built but not enabled on Thunderbird trunk [All]
[2007-07-23 18:36]# 351445 [Thunderbird] - Match all messages in the filter and save search dialog hides UI elements [All]
[2007-07-23 18:45]# 386886 [Thunderbird] - consider using (rich)listbox instead of mailWidgets.xml#extdescription [All]
[2007-07-24 09:32]# 184490 [Core] - After-the-fact Filters on custom header (eg "User-Agent" or "Newsgroup") won't match for IMAP messages [All]

Recent Bugs of interest

# 383955 [Thunderbird] - cancel does not work in recent trunk builds [All]

Latest Tested Builds

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072305 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2007072305]
via normal software update

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070712 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5pre ID:2007071208]

Posted July 18th, 2007, 5:12 pm

Updated via a partial from 17th build to the 18th with no problem.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071815 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2007071815

Posted July 18th, 2007, 10:28 pm

yeah! finally. Kudos to Joe for figuring out the problem.

Posted July 19th, 2007, 1:17 am

I'd like to come back to an issue I tried to launch several times without success ...

The slowness of Thunderbird. For a few months now, I met this issue on slowness in opening mails, reading RSS feeds.

I tried to rebuild indexes, but with no improvements.

Am I the only one to get this issue ?

Posted July 19th, 2007, 3:27 pm

ChefChaudart wrote:I'd like to come back to an issue I tried to launch several times without success
The slowness of Thunderbird. For a few months now, I met this issue on slowness in opening mails, reading RSS feeds.

Well, I see some performance degradation but I don't think it's Tbird code.
If you mean slower rendering of complex html (RSS feed content) then I agree.
Just opening text content seems fine to me.
I keep a few "speed tests" for reference, since my usual viewing in newsgroups is more like
web pages than email, and I can say that I see a 10 to 20% slow down in trunk since my "checkpoint"
build from 2007-05-04
I think this is all due to Core issues (layout, reflow etc.)

Posted July 19th, 2007, 10:46 pm

My degradation is much bigger. It can take up from 5' to 10' to open a simple mail.

[EDIT]

I went back to 2.0.0.5, and my god, it's much much quicker !

I think I will keep a look on latest trunk, but update when performances issues will be solved ...

Posted July 20th, 2007, 4:04 pm

The degradation that I was speaking about was in milliseconds.
I also run a branch build, and don't see the problem there either.
I know it's a pain, but maybe you need to think about a new profile.

Posted July 20th, 2007, 4:13 pm

It seems we have a new problem in viewing newsgroups.
When opening posts with binary content (jpegs attached or inline)
TB simply terminates while downloading the post.
No crashreporter info, no microsoft notificaion, it just quits.
A fairly large post with 3 attached jpegs for a total of about 300k will quit immediately.
Smaller content works, but seem to have a cumulative affect, they open once, but not the second time.

The same content, when viewed in the inbox, or local folders, works fine.

Any ideas.

Posted July 20th, 2007, 6:01 pm

Filed # 389039 [Thunderbird] - Thunderbird "quits" when viewing newsgroups with binary content [Win]
for the above.

Posted July 20th, 2007, 6:21 pm

oops..Scott beat me to it.
# 389038 [Core] - Crash viewing a newsgroup with several images [Win]
But I wonder why I'm not seeing an actual crash on this.

Posted July 20th, 2007, 11:12 pm

JoeS wrote:... I know it's a pain, but maybe you need to think about a new profile.

Would it change something, as going back to 2.0.0.5 gives full power ?

Posted July 21st, 2007, 12:47 pm

I don't know if it is an old problem but I recently experienced some problems with mails containing html comments.
It is about mails received from Outlook as multipart:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138

The multipart html section starts with the following code:

Code: Select all: Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head><body><div> ...

I hit the reply button, type my answer (html composing is activated by default) and choose to send it. TB then asks if the mail should be send in plain text or html (or both). Check "plain text" and the mail is sent, but...
the html comment, which should definitely not be shown is now readable:

This happened with an older build as well as with current trunk
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007072105 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2007072105

Anyone else experiencing this? It's quite annoying sending mails that include source code fragments.

Posted July 21st, 2007, 4:04 pm

You could try some of the View>>Message body as options but that would probably block some of the content on some messages.
How I would handle it is to edit out the offending content while in html compose within the reply.
Edit>>select all then insert>>html then edit out the parts that you don't want to go into the reply.
Personaly, if someone sends me an html mail, I assume that is there preference, and reply in html.

Posted July 22nd, 2007, 12:45 am

JoeS wrote:You could try some of the View>>Message body as options but that would probably block some of the content on some messages.

Viewing Message bodies as plain text would certainly work around this, but would have inconvenient impact on the readability of some html mails (And constantly changing this option does not seem to be a nice solution either)

How I would handle it is to edit out the offending content while in html compose within the reply.
Edit>>select all then insert>>html then edit out the parts that you don't want to go into the reply.

I probably did not make myself clear enough because this is exactly the problem I mentioned. You simply can't edit anything that is not shown in the compose window.

First pic: I copied the whole html mail, opened the compose window (write new mail) and inserted the text. The first line shows - as expected - the salutation ("Liebe Bankenplanspielteilnehmer")

Second pic: The mail I received after converting to plain text on sending

Personaly, if someone sends me an html mail, I assume that is there preference, and reply in html.

I for one, send html messages only if it is really necessary: If I finish typing my reply and notice that I did not use any formating, I will send that mail as plain text.

Nevertheless, thank you for your thoughts on this

Posted July 23rd, 2007, 7:01 am

Since Friday (07/20/2007), checking for updates from trunk builds seems to eat every ounce of memory on my machine and eventually crash. This is on win32.
I have tried using the auto-update as well as a full install of the trunk build.

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