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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$. |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
On 5/25/2019 2:32 PM, Yikes wrote:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!! mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have. On my Win XP Pro laptop. NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$. 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. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list. https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz |
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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$. If you have the "Mail Toolbar" checked to display there should be a Customize menu item that brings up a panel of tool icons to drag to the toolbar, one of which is "Stop". This is on an old version - 16.0.2 -- |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following: Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!! mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have. On my Win XP Pro laptop. NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$. Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up and sit down" button. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can writean email ????
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$. Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up and sit down" button. Source is available. It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/ Paul |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!! mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have. On my Win XP Pro laptop. NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$. 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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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
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$. Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up and sit down" button. Source is available. It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/ Hard for who? I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it long enough. The problem are the programs without source code. Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available. However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Donald Trump lied his way onto the Forbes 400 richest people list. https://tinyurl.com/yx9ebrqz |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email ????
On Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote: On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote: Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: pyotr filipivich wrote: Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email composer !!! mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have. On my Win XP Pro laptop. NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$. 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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about open source vs proprietary and, enduser issues How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write an email
"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. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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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$. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
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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. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
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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How do i tell Thunderbird to stop what is doing so i can write anemail ????
Just FYI
I write code, millions of lines over the decades. Even an app running in a single thread can have a way out for every involved routine (method). If it is a possible hang (to the user) problem then using an out of process helper routine gets its own thread and will not in any way disturb the parent apps thread. With multi-thread apps it is a piece of cake to exit any method at any time and schedule to come back and complete or MOST importantly to relinquish itself for as long as it needs to a more important call as from a user wanting to actually do something. Time slices ! Anyway, time slices are what a good OS does properly. The writers on the code that do not do that are not interested in writing code for users ! BURN ! I see that all the time, code written by engineers or programmers that are written for themselves but not for users. Their mindset is not properly oriented. AKA Windows, Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, etc. Sad. 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$. |
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