seen on Windows XP version 0.9+ (20041128) -Setup News & Blogs account Do not add a news feed to the account. -Context Select(right click) News & Blogs | Get Messages for Account tested results: The progress meter and throbbber spin endlessly. Status reads "Checking RSS feed for new items" expected results: The progress spins until the account is checked and messages/articles are retrieved (in this case, none). And perhaps some sort of status message like "There are no news feeds set up for this account." note: This bug doesn't happen after adding a feed to the News & Blogs account.

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

I saw this on linux, too.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Do you still see this in current version 17?

This was fixed long ago.