Hi, sorry for the late reply. I only use Thunderbird for email not for newsgroups. Because it keeps on freezing I'm now using Kmail or Evolution which seem to work just fine... Now I'm trying to choose between the two, still under KDE 3.5.9... Kmail vs. Evolution... which one is better?? :-) Cheers, Martin ----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Plater <davejplater@gmail.com> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:21:45 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] SuSE 11::Thunderbird eats up the CPU Martin Mielke wrote:

Hi list,

I'm in the process of customizing my new openSuSE 11.0 x86_64 at home. Still using KDE 3.5.9 due to it's maturity and really looking forward to seeing KDE4 more stable...

Anyway, after configuring Thunderbird as IMAP client for my Gmail accounts the process itself peaks up to 98% and almost freezes the whole system. The OpenGL screensavers move in slow motion (dropping a lot of frames) and the only way out is to 'pkill thunderbird'...

Using Kmail instead works fine though... but I do prefer Thunderbird (more used to it).

So, has anyone faced such a situation under openSuSE 11 before? if so, what have you done to solve it?

TIA, Martin

I've experienced the same problem a while ago (not sure about the version I had then as I was using factory) with gmail IMAP and every time I have attempted to use Tbird for novell newsgroups it has slowed down and eventually locked when downloading message bodies. If I remember correctly my gmail IMAP lockup also happened when downloading message bodies. I used popmail instead and forgot about the problem. Maybe we have found a bug, does your lockup happen when downloading message bodies and have you tried newsgroups? My last newsgroup problem was recent. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org