George,

Not as fast as it could be *LOL*. I recall originally ALL the icon on the left refreshed each time.. It just gets irksome watching them wink out, take several seconds to redraw when I'd rather be getting 4k of message content than 4k of the same old gifs every N seconds. I really don't care if the one icon changes from gray to yellow I can see that with a non-zero number sitting under it.

Heck text links would be better, than the several million (perhaps an exageration *g*) times a day those icons get served up off Michel's machine.

>Can I assume that it no longer helps "speed things up"?