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When I reply to an email that has many (20 or so) previous replies, typing in the editor is painfully slow. There is a delay of ~5 seconds between keystrokes registering.

when I compose a new message, this problem is not evident.

Any help is appreciated!

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.8 with Lightning 1.0b2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

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Do you have any extensions installed? – random♦ Mar 23 '11 at 20:13
@random: Other than the Lightning 1.0b2 that I mentioned? No. – Hollister Mar 24 '11 at 2:34
I got rid of lightning calendar and that seems to help for now... – user104656 Nov 9 '11 at 4:56

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It happened to me with a previous 3.1x Thunderbird version. Maybe upgrade to 3.1.9. Might be some setting in html composing settings, or , I also noticed a boost when unmarked global index and search checkbox at Preferences/Advanced , General tab. Other things I did not try (as an update solved it) were deactivate grammar auto checking, use only non html composing, etc.

It might be that you have it configured as typing in text only mode, but there's a setting at composing settings, in preferences which give you several options, and default I think is type in html, rich format, if the original wrtitter was doing so. So would happen only in replies, not in a new blank message.

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Thanks for the tips. For some reason, it doesn't seem to be behaving poorly anymore, and I haven't change a thing (not even a reboot). Very weird. I'll keep an eye on it and take your advice if it occurs again. – Hollister Mar 24 '11 at 18:34

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