Nick Sabalausky wrote:
That sort of thing is a big pet peeve for me too (Maybe I'm just being pessemistic, but it seems to be all too common lately). It's definitely a dominant charactaristic of Mozilla in general though, not just Thunderbird. Literally at least half the time I use FireFox, there will be some point where I'll have something loading in one tab, so I'll try to switch to another tab so I can do something useful while I'm waiting, but then it won't switch tabs (or have any responsiveness at all, for that matter) until the first tab finishes loading. *Then* it'll switch tabs even though by then it's become pointless.

I *really* wish I could find a web browser that fixes those responsiveness problems


I had the same frustration with IE 7. One tab would hang due to javascript slowness, and every other tab (and every other window on the computer) would grind to a halt.

This has gotten much better with IE 8, though Windows still does a poor job of giving the window with the focus higher priority than background windows.

What also helped was upgrading to a multicore system.

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