Comment 78 for bug 109943

Thanks for the info.

To reemphasize the big problems: a) even at modest amounts of CPU, it sucks battery life, b) at modest amounts (above 5-10%?, I forget the range) it impacts responsivesness when getting new mail, c) to make it worse we have (or at least have had) situations where the progress meter lingers, and even sometimes never goes away due to other brokenness so the CPU usage can be continuous.

(In reply to Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan) from comment #58)
> ... I think the best solution, if any, is to chase the toolkit people to fix their widget.

So far after 10 years in bug 854093 that hasn't worked out so well for linux. (or do we need something else?) Does someone know stransky or do we have some other friend?

On the windows side this required aceman and our friend Neil in bug 658829 (ref bug 791535 comment 19). But even there we still might have an edge case per bug 658829 comment 97.