Philippe Andersson said the following on 02/28/2013 07:54 AM:
On 28/02/13 10:50, John Bennett wrote:
It would appear that the latest Thunderbird update (17.0.3 on 12.2 x64) seems to have brought it to a screaming halt... Reallyyy slow. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm on 17.0.3, OS 12.2, 64bit, but I haven't noticed any slowdown in TB.
I'm using IMAP against an MS Exchange server, and I have lots of local folders -- maybe your connection method is different.
I'm using it - and its predecessors - with IMAP too. The IMAP is Dovecot on a 800Mhz memory starved machine, but is quite adequate. This end is 17.0.3 on a 3GHz AMD on 12.2/btrfs. Slow? NO. Laggy - yes. Start-up is OK but if I, for example, tag a article then there is a lg the first time it happens. I think this is either code being paged in or icons/gui-ness being paged in. Perhaps this is because some caching strategy is trying to reduce the footprint or something. Have you googled for this? There is a lot "thunderbird 17 slow" produces 1,920,000 hits. In particular http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2640335 which describes how to remove a lot of crud that may be slowing things down. -- Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. --Nozick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org