On 2/19/14 10:12 AM, BillW50 wrote:
"Char Jackson" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:52:57 -0600, "BillW50" wrote:

"Char Jackson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:04:55 -0500, Silver Slimer
wrote:

On 18/02/2014 5:33 PM, Adam Kubias wrote:

I have an even better computer. i7-4770 @3.40 GHz with 32 GB RAM.

Thunderbird is slow as hell, at least 5 times a day it totally
freezes.

Holy ****. It freezes on THAT kind of a configuration? Jesus Christ
it's worse than awful isn't it?

You're assuming that Thunderbird is the one and only application
ever running on that system. That sort of assumes facts not in
evidence, as a lawyer buddy is fond of saying. Without knowing what
else is running, you can't come to a conclusion WRT Thunderbird.

It isn't rocket science. All you have to do and open up the Task
Manager and see what all of the processes are doing with the CPU. I
also run Process Lasso and it logs processes, which ones that hogs the
processor. And both Thunderbird and Firefox are usually the only ones
in the log for days.

After seeing the wild claims in this thread, the only conclusion I can
come to is that for some people it's indistinguishable from rocket
science.

Case in point: the statement above that says "It freezes on THAT kind
of a configuration? Jesus Christ it's worse than awful isn't it?" is
utterly ridiculous. I don't mean to pick on one person, though. This
entire thread, or at least the part about Thunderbird, has been
laughable from the start.

Actually I believe cause and effect is enough reason to dump it without
finding out the real cause. Like the old joke "Doc, it hurts when I do
this!" And I haven't really investigated what Thunderbird is actually
doing to freeze up suddenly in my case. My latest theory is it might be
indexing my IMAP accounts. And it is most annoying while I am composing
a message. As it stops showing keystrokes and when it unfreezes some of
the last keystrokes can be totally lost (probably because the keyboard
buffer overflowed).

Bill, I don't know if this will help you do try to track down what is
happening, but I have the same typo issues here, on this Mac. TB 24,
I've stopped updating TB and Firefox. But I do not have any IMAP
accounts, all my email accounts are POP3.

Myself, I'm about to buy the latest Office for Mac, and go back to
Outlook. I like HTML email, everyone I know uses it, as most use
webmail. Too many issues with HTML composing, and those issues have
just become too frustrating.


My temporary fix is to copy and paste to another editor. And it doesn't
matter what other editor, Notepad, WordPad, WordStar, Word, etc. and the
rest shows every keystroke and never drops characters. Regardless
whether Thunderbird is currently frozen or not. It only happens under
Thunderbird and nothing else. So the solution seems pretty clear to me.
Don't use Thunderbird or at least use another editor and the major
problem is gone.



--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 24.0