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Tasks Bugs Owners Delivery Mileston Estimated Improvments
General Improvements 104328: "Add Bookmark" performance poor with many bookmarks waterson 0.9.6 cuts 10% off window close!
52149: scrolling bookmark tree is absolutely slow blakeross 0.9.7  
73508: bookmarks tree widget need to be converted to rdfliner blakeross 0.9.7  
77051: Linux popup menus painfully slow (too many calls to XGrabPointer and XGetGeometry) blizzard 0.9.7  
82854: FilePicker: Loading a directory with large number of files is very slow bryner 0.9.7  
104243 : [FIX]Many useless calls to Invalidate() in nsTextFrame bienvenu 0.9.6  
97895: Back/Forward: Old page gets repainted when leaving a page bryner 0.9.6 5% linux
80561: dragging splitters too slow on linux evughan    
83205: Typing speed in autocomplete text field is unacceptably slow hewitt    
97157: Find in page with a "pre" tag is very very slow kin 0.9.9  
95461: Find with WrapAround selected is very very slow kin 0.9.9  
34887: paint: Opaque nsIFrame's instances need to set SetViewContentTransparency on their views to avoid repainting fully occluded background areas
kmcclusk 0.9.7 kevin - patch/build to turn off painting by wed 10/24
jrgm - measurements
69010: nsRenderingContext::FillRect is way slow kmcclusk 0.9.7 Mac only??
Style System - sharing rule tree      
Mail
Improvements 		104989: improve 2nd compose window time by hiding compose window on send, and re-showing it after clearing, subject, etc ducarroz 0.9.7 user_pref("mail.compose.max_recycled_windows", 1);
footprint impact?
85029: searching large mail folders is incredibly slow naving 0.9.6  
: investigate reply speed, after 104989 lands ducarroz    
: fix first compose window speed, after 104989 lands ducarroz    
: investigate fcc2 menu (should be done lazily) varada    
70858: switch from tree to listbox in the addressing widget hewitt 0.9.6 [XUL Syntax] Implement listbox
98657: remove "composeSaveMenuItems" command set from messengercompose.xul sspitzer 0.9.6 minimal
108038: mprove compose perf (and reply perf) by updating the commands less sspitzer 0.9.6  
: reduce composer toolbar updating even more, if we can focusedElement wasn't null when editor has focus (or figure something else) sspitzer    
108393: use setTimeout() to improve tabbing from address to address, address to subject, subject to body sspitzer    
101480: when replying to an IMAP message, fetch by part (so we only get the body, not the attachments) cavin 0.9.6  
104519: improve message display performance by selectively notifying the header sink mscott    
22960: Improve message display performance mscott 0.9.7  
: investigate folder loading cavin,naving,bienvenu    
: investigate mork bienvenu    
: investigate footprint (where's the memory going?) naving,bienvenu    
: investigate leaks bienvenu    
107481: Opening folder: Doing UpdateCommands("mail-toolbar") several times sspitzer 0.9.7  
104610: Using 'n' and advancing to next folder is unbearably slow naving 0.9.7  
104676: Local folder mail viewing of a large mailbox is too slow naving 0.9.6  
106817: many threads being created and destroyed when in menupop with icons pavlov 0.9.7  
104905: increase nsXULAttributeValue::kMaxAtomValueLength or force atom more in nsXULAttributeValue::SetValue() sspitzer    
103451: sorting performance: need GetSortKeyLen() and CreateRawSortKey() that take const PRUnichar * to avoid copying naving    
26455: Mail startup time is slow cavin    
103010: make news servers closed on startup, don't do any NNTP on startup. sspitzer 0.9.6  
: nvestigate how expensive our folder datasource usage is in the folder pane sspitzer    
: investigate our account manager datasource & folder datasource based XUL template generated content (get messages, copy, file, move). should all be done lazily. sspitzer    
: investigate other XUL template generated content (charset menu, tasks, etc). should all be done lazily varada    
: investigate a simpler skin (does modern's complexity and polish slow us down?) varada,sspitzer    
100802: investigate time to delete message and load next message since that's such a common operation (toolbar flashing on delete, selection goes from 0 to 1 to 0) [improvements made] bienvenu 0.9.6  
: switch it so that we display the contents of the imap folder before we connect to the server and do folder discovery and download headers. (though you can't load a message until we've finished all that. we might want to investigate doing folder discovery on a different thread, though it could cause problems) bienvenu    
108584: switch to using PRPackedBool sspitzer    
107151: ab: investigate performance sspitzer    
73868: ab: switch to pure outliner (not rdfliner) implement a nsIOutlinerView like we do in nsMsgDBView for the results pane, and ab sidebar sspitzer    
: ab: switch to rdf line for addressbook / mailing list pane (like we do in the folder pane) sspitzer    
: ab: clean up directory and card datasources sspitzer    
105835: ab: clean up addressPane.css . sspitzer    
: cache edit / new card window, like in 104989 sspitzer    
104988 increase string bundle cache, break apart our string bundles (especially compose, move the errors out from the main compose bundle), make sure the string bundle cache is big enough that we aren't swapping out bundles, or make callers hold onto bundles where possible. varada    
80897: batching for multiple msg delete, marking as read, etc sspitzer    
108577: automate leak / bloat measuring, tie into tinderbox varada, stephend, mcafee    
78787: add better logging so that stephend can automate more of his timings varada, stephend    
Slow scrolling bugs 60371: [linux] slow scrolling of the text field using mouse kin