Firefox and Thunderbird issue when browsing ACF

FF 104, TB 09
When browsing ACF posts in TB, I click on a header and instantly the post
appears in the lower window.

I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the next
post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long time for the
post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As soon as the
download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.

Does anyone else see this?

Advice?

Mike Sa

ms <ms@nospa.com> wrote in news:3kddshFu1inmU1@individual.net:

> FF 104, TB 09
> When browsing ACF posts in TB, I click on a header and instantly the
> post appears in the lower window.
>
> I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
> download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the
> next post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long
> time for the post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As
> soon as the download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.
>
> Does anyone else see this?


Are you on dialup? This is normal, if so. Firefox is using most of your
bandwidth, and TB is getting very little, so the post is slow to load.

>
>
> Are you on dialup? This is normal, if so. Firefox is using most of your
> bandwidth, and TB is getting very little, so the post is slow to load.
>

It even happens with Xnews and Avant! ;-)

mike

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:30:26 -0700 ms <ms@nospa.com> wrote:

>FF 104, TB 09
>When browsing ACF posts in TB, I click on a header and instantly the post
>appears in the lower window.
>
>I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
>download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the next
>post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long time for the
>post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As soon as the
>download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.
>
>Does anyone else see this?

It's not just Firefox. IE as well as every download manager I've tried
behaves the same way. When on dial-up, it seems that when you d/l a file
the download process grabs almost all of your bandwidth, making other
online activity crawl. When I am downloading a large file, web pages
often time out before they load in the browser, and checking email in
Eudora or getting usenet messages in Agent takes forever. I have often
wished for a utility that would allow one to allocate bandwidth on the
fly to selected services, so that I could "trickle" the download while
continuing to work almost normally in other internet apps.
--
schrodinger's cat

ms wrote:
> I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
> download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the next
> post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long time for
> the post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As soon as the
> download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.
>
> Does anyone else see this?

Thanks to all. Yes, I'm on DUN, so I guess it's a fact of life. Still, DUN
saves a lot of headaches I keep hearing about on broadband.

Mike Sa

"ms" <ms@nospa.com> wrote in message news:3kg12kFud0koU1@individual.net...
> ms wrote:
> > I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
> > download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the next
> > post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long time for
> > the post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As soon as the
> > download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.
> >
> > Does anyone else see this?
>
> Thanks to all. Yes, I'm on DUN, so I guess it's a fact of life. Still, DUN
> saves a lot of headaches I keep hearing about on broadband.
>

Headaches? I recently abandoned dial-up in favour of broadband, many for
reasons of lower cost. I have the router connected 24/7 so it's always
available and with its built in firewall I'm better protected, no waiting to
connect, no engaged lines, no risk of rogue diallers, no random dropped
connections in the middle of downloads. Only headache I have is getting
my old dialup provider's thieving hands away from my credit card.


You could look for a download manager that can limit the download bandwidth
to have less effect on your browsing, it's a long time since I tried it, but I think
Download Express would do this by setting it to use a single thread.


Regards,

Mel.

Mel wrote:
>
> "ms" <ms@nospa.com> wrote in message news:3kg12kFud0koU1@individual.net...
> > ms wrote:
> > > I click on a link in a post, to download a file in Firefox While the
> > > download is happening, when I go back to the TB screen to view the next
> > > post, I click on a new header, but now it takes a *very* long time for
> > > the post to appear in the window. TB gets very sluggish. As soon as the
> > > download finishes, TB goes back to quick operation.
> > >
> > > Does anyone else see this?
> >
> > Thanks to all. Yes, I'm on DUN, so I guess it's a fact of life. Still, DUN
> > saves a lot of headaches I keep hearing about on broadband.
> >
>
> Headaches? I recently abandoned dial-up in favour of broadband, many for
> reasons of lower cost. I have the router connected 24/7 so it's always
> available and with its built in firewall I'm better protected, no waiting to
> connect, no engaged lines, no risk of rogue diallers, no random dropped
> connections in the middle of downloads. Only headache I have is getting
> my old dialup provider's thieving hands away from my credit card.
>
> You could look for a download manager that can limit the download bandwidth
> to have less effect on your browsing, it's a long time since I tried it, but I think
> Download Express would do this by setting it to use a single thread.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mel.

Try Free Download Manager...can set speeds with one click....

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/features.htm

hope helps...have fun.....sno

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> Mike Sa
> I'm on DUN

G'day Mike, do you have 1.4 version of DUN.

Dial-Up Networking 1.4 Upgrade Is Available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285189/EN-US/
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/...n14/default.asp
Windows 98 Second Edition:

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft
Download Center:
DownloadDownload DUN 1.4 for Windows 98 Second Edition (Dun14-se.exe)
now
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