How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
 

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
 

On 5/25/2019 2:32 PM, Yikes wrote:

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

It is a long-time problem that the Stop button (a red X on the tool bar)
does generally not work. I terminate Thunderbird, count slowly to 10,
and then relaunch it.


--
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http://www.rossde.com/

Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list.
https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz

How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can writean email ????
 

On 5/25/2019 5:32 PM, Yikes wrote:

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.



If you have the "Mail Toolbar" checked to display there should be a Customize
menu item that brings up a panel of tool icons to drag to the toolbar, one of
which is "Stop". This is on an old version - 16.0.2

--

How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
 

Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:

Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

--
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Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?

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pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Paul

How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
 

On Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700, Yikes wrote:


Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

What's it doing ? Mine gets a bit slow when it's compacting
(on demand) 1GB of emails, but that's about it.

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.

I use a (very) old version. Lightning fast. POP Email only.
[]'s


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

--
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We have a new policy - Google 2012

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On 5/25/2019 9:58 PM, Shadow wrote:
On Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700, Yikes wrote:


Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

What's it doing ? Mine gets a bit slow when it's compacting
(on demand) 1GB of emails, but that's about it.

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.

I use a (very) old version. Lightning fast. POP Email only.
[]'s


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

I use the current version of Thunderbird 60.7.0 (32-bit) and do not have
that problem so I can not advise as to what to do.

It seems like in a dozen or so versions ago I had a problem like that
but it disappeared with the next up grade.

In the last few version I have never felt the need for the stop Button,
and never placed it on the toolbar.

--
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
 

Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.
--
pyotr filipivich
Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?

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On 26/05/2019 03:10, Keith Nuttle wrote:

I use the current version of Thunderbird 60.7.0 (32-bit) and do not
have that problem so I can not advise as to what to do.

You don't need to. The OP is a known troll who keeps changing his ID
every 1 hour. his other nym just published a awhile ago is FreeMan
(Browser Blank). The sooner you guys realise that these nutters are
taking everybody as fools, the better it will be for these newsgroups.
there is too much rubbish being posted lately.

Anybody cross-posting a message is the first sign to examine the
credentials of that nutter. It is the first sign that a troll is active
on these newsgroups.

I have removed 10 and 7 from this post to avoid even more spam here.








--
With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

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On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.


Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was
submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616.

--
David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list.
https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz

How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
 

On Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!

mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.


On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.


Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was
submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616.

17 years :)

You are right, "its a dead STOP button, Jim"

I just tested mine, never used it, since I set my "connection
timeout" to 20 seconds. You could probably lower that to 10 or even 5
seconds with today's speeds. Unless you manually type in every
password.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138632.

File -- Offline -- Work Offline
That'll kill it.
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

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"David E. Ross" on Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47
-0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!
mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.
On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.

Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

While Open Source is a wonder thing, there still remains the small
detail that it is really only "open" to those who know the language
exceedingly well. E.G., If I publish the source code for "NukeDet" (A
program I wrote to calculate the effects of nuclear weapons), but you
don't "read" Pascal, sure it is "open source" but is it accessible to
you? (I'll leave out the issue of finding a Pascal compiler.)
The second issue is having the time to reproduce the "find the
issue, fix it, compile, test, find the new error, fix that one."lather
rinse, repeat". I have a "simple" batch file which copies files from
selected directories on Drive1 to Drive2. But it took an hour or more
to make the latest revision which works with the Win7 file structure,
communicate correctly with the XP file structures. And then later,
discovering that I had deleted as "unnecessary" in the target
directory tree, and so the email, browser and CAD datafiles were all
copied to the same directory. Ooops. Good thing I didn't need those.
"Someday" I am going to have to add traps for errors into that thing.

However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was
submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616.

"These things take time". B-)

Take a look at the major bug in the Forte Agent newsreader, all
temporary filters expired in June of last year.
--
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Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?

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On 26/05/2019 17.57, pyotr filipivich wrote:
"David E. Ross" on Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47
-0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!
mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.
On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.

Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

While Open Source is a wonder thing, there still remains the small
detail that it is really only "open" to those who know the language
exceedingly well.

Or you may have the money to pay somebody to do it for you, or you may
sweet talk somebody :-)

At least you have some chances.

E.G., If I publish the source code for "NukeDet" (A
program I wrote to calculate the effects of nuclear weapons), but you
don't "read" Pascal, sure it is "open source" but is it accessible to
you? (I'll leave out the issue of finding a Pascal compiler.)

There are several free Pascal compilers ;-)

--
Cheers, Carlos.

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On Sun, 26 May 2019 08:57:17 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

"David E. Ross" on Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47
-0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!
mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.
On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.

Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

While Open Source is a wonder thing, there still remains the small
detail that it is really only "open" to those who know the language
exceedingly well. E.G., If I publish the source code for "NukeDet" (A
program I wrote to calculate the effects of nuclear weapons), but you
don't "read" Pascal, sure it is "open source" but is it accessible to
you? (I'll leave out the issue of finding a Pascal compiler.)

If it's Free Pascal, try Lazarus. Which is open-source and
compiles itself, if you want.

The second issue is having the time to reproduce the "find the
issue, fix it, compile, test, find the new error, fix that one."lather
rinse, repeat". I have a "simple" batch file which copies files from
selected directories on Drive1 to Drive2. But it took an hour or more
to make the latest revision which works with the Win7 file structure,
communicate correctly with the XP file structures. And then later,
discovering that I had deleted as "unnecessary" in the target
directory tree, and so the email, browser and CAD datafiles were all
copied to the same directory. Ooops. Good thing I didn't need those.
"Someday" I am going to have to add traps for errors into that thing.

However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was
submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616.

"These things take time". B-)

They could take the code from the go-offline function and put
it in the STOP function. Minus the actual "go-offline", of course.

Maybe by examining the code from an early, small version they
can spot the "if then" that didn't "then".

Open-source is great for small programs. You can change a lot
of stuff, specially if it's nicely commented. But most popular
programs (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice) have become mastodons.
They need a big team to maintain.
[]'s

Take a look at the major bug in the Forte Agent newsreader, all
temporary filters expired in June of last year.
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

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"Carlos E.R." on Sun, 26 May 2019 22:43:46
+0200 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 26/05/2019 17.57, pyotr filipivich wrote:
"David E. Ross" on Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47
-0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!
mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.
On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.

Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

While Open Source is a wonder thing, there still remains the small
detail that it is really only "open" to those who know the language
exceedingly well.

Or you may have the money to pay somebody to do it for you, or you may
sweet talk somebody :-)

Given the resources, even "proprietary software" can be made open
source. Just decompile the executable, and "viola! you're in like a
porch climber."
You do not have all the fancy variable and function names like one
does wit the original source code, but ...


At least you have some chances.

E.G., If I publish the source code for "NukeDet" (A
program I wrote to calculate the effects of nuclear weapons), but you
don't "read" Pascal, sure it is "open source" but is it accessible to
you? (I'll leave out the issue of finding a Pascal compiler.)

There are several free Pascal compilers ;-)

Like I said ... 8-)

I used to joke about job apps where it asked for languages,
putting down "German, COBOL and Pascal".
--
pyotr filipivich
Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?