Image loading very slow

Image loading very slow

mojo-chan User Posts: 33 Points: 24 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 22 July 2006	#1 0 16 October 2009 01:58:50 Why do images in emails take so long to load? In Thunderbird and Outlook they download an open in less than a second, but in The Bat they take about 10 seconds.

Marek Mikus Guru Posts: 489 Points: 929 Rating: 10 Authority: 10 Joined: 03 September 2003	#2 0 19 October 2009 01:34:40 You can increase number of concurrent tasks in connection centre in Options \| Network and Administration, I do not know how much tasks and how much bandwith other apps uses, but as I have tested some newsletters, outlook loaded them in 2s and TB in 4s

mojo-chan User Posts: 33 Points: 24 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 22 July 2006	#3 0 20 October 2009 23:09:56 Doesn't seem to make any difference. For example, I get an email from eBay. In Thunderbird the images load instantly, in TB they take about 10 seconds.

Anil Panwar Beginner Posts: 6 Points: 3 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 15 October 2009	#4 0 21 October 2009 09:11:45 even one more problem. it always ask, that allow images from ebay ? why it is asking each time ? there should be an option to make it enable too.

Marek Mikus Guru Posts: 489 Points: 929 Rating: 10 Authority: 10 Joined: 03 September 2003	#5 0 21 October 2009 11:01:48 I am trying many newsletters and TB is not so slow. do You use Firefox? not sure, but maybe TBird uses cache of Firefox? And Outlook cache of Internet Explorer?

mojo-chan User Posts: 33 Points: 24 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 22 July 2006	#6 0 21 October 2009 20:07:10 TB uses it's own cache (which BTW it does not clean, remember to do it manually every now and then).