Thunderbird is Slow

Category: Quickies

Q:

I started using Mozilla Thunderbird early this year. About a month ago it started acting up. When I open the program it will take from five to fifteen minutes before it will start to download any messages. Once open, it works fine. I have deleted all sent messages and emptied the trash. I'm using WINXP with SP2 and running Norton AV. I run Spybot S&D and Lavasoft Adaware weekly I also update NAV weekly and run scans. Defrag and scandisc weekly as well. Any ideas?



A:

I'd try removing and re-installing Thunderbird. Anyone else have this problem, or a suggestion?

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Posted by:
Chris
26 Oct 2005

I can confirm this issue as well. I have had it for a while.

It takes about 2 minutes to load my inbox file. I would like to go back to outlook but it looks like it will be a long process and I am in the middle of doing an assignment (using email :/)


Posted by:
Andy
16 Nov 2005

Had a slowdown too and found that Compacting database speeds thing up considerably


Posted by:
Jason
01 Dec 2005

I found that the theme CrosOver 2.0.2 killed Tbird's performance. Why? I dont know. Tbird would be choppy and lag doing the simplest of things like switching to a different folder. The solution is to use another theme. I went back to the default theme and all was well again. Maybe it's just my system but, fact is not all add-on's work well in all situations. Try eliminating the add-on stuff before hacking files.


Posted by:
Jelena
04 Dec 2005

I found a solution: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Inbox_stays_blank

This worked just fine for me.


Posted by:
Larry
02 Sep 2007

Had the same problem about slow downloads and even slower uploads. I disabled my Panda antivirus and it solved my problem. It worked great in the past but it reached a point where it would interrogate every letter typed. I uninstalled Panda and I installed the free AVG antivirus and it works fine. Hope this helps.


Posted by:
Sha
26 Sep 2007

I tried to compact, its working fine


Posted by:
Gates
15 Nov 2007

Thanks Jason!! Disabling the TB talkback feature in add-ons solved my problem. I am no longer suffering from slow startups, slow opening emails, ghost windows after sending emails, etc. Seems my problem has been TB's very own talkback feature for reporting bugs was causing the hangs.


Posted by:
Ronny
27 Dec 2007

when I opens thunerbird at first(after booting into windows)it s getting hang also displaying a message "downloading messages .......please wait"in thunder bird status bar.

When I restarts the thunderbird, it works fine.This problem happening every day. I deleted inbox.msf files, but problem is still there.

Plz tell me the soln for this

Also I have created filters.Some mails which have to go on filtered folders its coming in Inbox also(duplicating).I checked the filter settings(ie,I put 'move to ' insted of 'copy to folder'option.)
plz help me sort out this problems

thank you


Posted by:
Johnny
26 Feb 2008

There's a simple solution:
Open Thunderbird
Make a new folder
Copy all inbox msgs to the new folder
close thunderbird
Open explorer
Delete both inbox file in the appropriate folder
restart thunderbird
Copy the msgs back to the inbox
done


Posted by:
Mike Golvach
27 Aug 2008

Hey there,

I had this problem too, and it was making me nuts since none of the convential fixes would help. No matter what I did, when I started up TBird, it would take approximately 790Mb of Memory and spike the cpu at 50% (On a 4GB RAM 2.0GHz dual core system) and then come up after 5 minutes or so.

The solution I found was somewhat simplistic. Once I found it, and took action, my performance went right back to normal. Doing a scan of my TBird directories, I found that my mimeTypes.rdf was almost exactly the same size of the memory used at startup (790Mb). I made sure that the default mimeTypes.rdf existed and deleted the humungous one. And that was that; everything was set :)

Hope this helps someone out who finds themselves in the same boat!


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