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Problem with News and Blogs, activity symbol doesn't stop after receiving mails.

Bug #111856 reported by maxivenezuela
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Mozilla Thunderbird
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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
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Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

There is a little bug in Thunderbird, since I know thunderbird, and startet to use it not just for my emails.

So since I use it, in any operating system in any Thunderbird release, the moment I give it a RSS account(a feed from gulli.com)
the little cirlcle in the right-up corner, rotates and rotates, unless I do a riight-clck on it, open what pops up, and close it again,
then it stops, but even it you check the email account or the RSS feed it won't start again.

I guess it affects the bar in the status bar too, 'couse it stay's full after getting the News, but I'k not shure if this is maybe on Purpose.

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In , Michaell+bmo (michaell+bmo) wrote :

*** Bug 272501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Bugzilla-iwaruna (bugzilla-iwaruna) wrote :

I saw this on linux, too.

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In , Bugs-erelas (bugs-erelas) wrote :

On WinXP SP2 with Thunderbird RC1, I am getting this as well. Without the RSS
account, the throbber never stops rotating. If I add an rss feed and then
restart, it works as it should. Also, I am not sure if this has anything to do
with it, but I am using a Global folder for all of email.

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In , Menthol-bonbon (menthol-bonbon) wrote :

on win98 with thunderbird 1.0
after the message in the status bar 'chechking for new rss feeds' dissapears,
and if there are no new feeds, the ticker keeps spinning forever

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In , Bugzilla-dougweb (bugzilla-dougweb) wrote :

I assume this was meant to be filed under RSS, not preferences?

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In , Bugzilla-willmooney (bugzilla-willmooney) wrote :

Build 20050602 Nightly Windows ZIP New Profile No Extentions

I was testing the RSS feeds and subscriptions and found this potential problem.

We can use an auto proxy config (unless you know the ips of the various
proxies) at my office. If I select auto proxy config in connections setting and
enable check for new articles at startup on the RSS feeds, when I start TB it
sits with the Checking RSS feeds for new titems and the strober for ever. If I
then right click the account and choose Get messages for account, the strober
stops and I can't check messages again (i.e the right click and selection
doesn't do anything). btw Netstat -a shows it makes a connection at startup but
for some reason doesn't complete properly?

If I choose one of the items then it will load in the preview window- so this
bit looks like it's using the autoconfig proxy ok at this point. (netstat -a
shows the connections)

If I set the proxy to a manual one and restart TB, it checks the new articles
fine. And I can right click and check manual fine (netstat -a again).

Could it be an issue with the autoconfig proxy file, its pretty big.

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In , Michal-seliga (michal-seliga) wrote :

happens with windows 2000 too, so i guess it isn't in OS

just a idea: maybe it would be enough to add some stop button to shut down
active connection(s).... like one in firefox

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In , Bienvenu (bienvenu) wrote :

you can customize your toolbar in tbird to show the stop button - you can also
just hit escape. But I'm not sure it works to fix these particular spinning meteors.

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In , Adam Guthrie (ispiked) wrote :

*** Bug 302108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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maxivenezuela (maxivenezuela) wrote : Problem with RSS feed's, activity symbol doesn't stop after receiving mails.

There is a little bug in Thunderbird, since I know thunderbird, and startet to use it not just for my emails.

So since I use it, in any operating system in any Thunderbird release, the moment I give it a RSS account(a feed from gulli.com)
the little cirlcle in the right-up corner, rotates and rotates, unless I do a riight-clck on it, open what pops up, and close it again,
then it stops, but even it you check the email account or the RSS feed it won't start again.

I guess it affects the bar in the status bar too, 'couse it stay's full after getting the News, but I'k not shure if this is maybe on Purpose.

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Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu) wrote :

Assigned to Mozilla Team

Changed in mozilla-thunderbird:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
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In , darkangel (lonedesign-2k) wrote :

My "News & Blogs" account isn't empty, but I have the same problem when checking for articles on non-empty (possibly empty as well) folders.

News & Blogs
-> Trash
-> Java
----> Java Feed 1
----> Java Feed 2

i.e., when "Java" is selected, and the "Get Mail" toolbar button is clicked, the throbber and indeterminate progress bar do not stop, and I don't think that the feeds are even checked for new articles.

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In , Jack Tanner (ihok) wrote :

*** Bug 273595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Jack Tanner (ihok) wrote :

RSS is clearly not the only affected component, and this is still in 2.0.0.12.

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote : Re: Problem with RSS feed's, activity symbol doesn't stop after receiving mails.

I never realized, but yes you are right. I can confirm this behaviour. For me the little circle does not keep spinning, though. But it is that Gnome thing that usually rotates to indicate some kind of activity (often found in AJAX apps, too)

Is there an upstream bug for it?

Changed in thunderbird:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software.
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and wait for upstream to work on this. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
summary: - Problem with RSS feed's, activity symbol doesn't stop after receiving
- mails.
+ Problem with News and Blogs, activity symbol doesn't stop after
+ receiving mails.
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
importance: Unknown → Low
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In , Vseerror (vseerror) wrote :

Do you still see this in current version 17?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in thunderbird:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED WORKSFORME" on 2015-07-26
with the comment "This was fixed long ago."
Last comment here was around 10 years ago so closing as fixed.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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