On 3/5/14 12:07 PM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 05/03/2014 6:56 PM, BillW50 wrote:
"Blue" wrote in message
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BillW50 wrote:

Although the number one complaint about TB is it freezes
up too often.


Define "number one".

Of all of the Thunderbird complaints that I hear, the freezing problems
shows up more often than any other one. Ken Springer even mentioned it
just today.


I've used it since it first started and freezing is not a thing I have
ever seen on all the versions of Windows since then and on several Linux
versions - although, like all programs, it has had a few problems that
is not one of them. Maybe it was something to so with the local system,
not Thunderbird?

Just because you have not experienced the bug, does not mean it isn't
real. That point seems to have been lost here. In the thread in the
Mozilla newsgroup, not everyone experienced it either. But there was
discussion as to why it may happen from a programming perspective.

Assuming we are talking the same "bug", if you are composing an
email/message, in my case an HTML message, the program stops responding
to keystrokes when you are typing the new message. On my Mac, I get the
"spinning beach ball of death", meaning a program is waiting in the
background for some process to complete. I've forgotten what happens to
the cursor in Windows. TB is still running, you just don't see it.
Eventually, the background process completes, and what you have typed
suddenly scrolls across the screen.

I just had it happen composing this message.

I get it quite often, and I believe it happens when TB is checking for
new messages. If that is the case, if you don't check for messages
automatically, or you have a long time frame between checks, you may
never notice it.

The HTML editor seems to have a number of issues. Apparently those
issues have been there a very long time, and Mozilla apparently knows
about some of them. I've got a list of 12 here on a sticky note.

I've given up on reporting bugs to FOSS software. The attitude of too
many programmers/developers seems to be, if they aren't interested, they
aren't going to fix them. And if they aren't going to fix things that
don't work for me, why should I use the software, or donate my time to
identify issues? Or, even support it with a financial donation?


--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 24.3.0