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  • Re: Thunderbird Complaint

    From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to JTEM on Thu Jun 6 18:07:06 2024
    JTEM wrote:
     John Harshman wrote:

    Not sure what you mean. I have no problem scrolling in Thunderbird.

    There can be hundreds even thousands of headers, I have nine or
    10 on the screen at one time, the one thread I'm looking for is
    maybe 42 headers down, I've go to scroll down...

    It doesn't seem to want to handle it. Very imprecise. There
    doesn't seem to be a good way to do it, not without marking
    everything in between as read.

    I've used t-bird for mail, with hundreds of messages
    (one archive folder has over 5000). On an older machine
    I had with 4 gb of ram everything was slow (which would
    include scrolling). Now I have machines with 16 and
    32 gb of ram so paging is a non issue. If you've only
    got 4 gb of ram that would explain a lot.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?=@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Thu Jun 6 18:52:23 2024
    On 2024-06-06 18:12, erik simpson wrote:
    On 6/6/24 5:07 PM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    JTEM wrote:
      John Harshman wrote:

    Not sure what you mean. I have no problem scrolling in Thunderbird.

    There can be hundreds even thousands of headers, I have nine or
    10 on the screen at one time, the one thread I'm looking for is
    maybe 42 headers down, I've go to scroll down...

    It doesn't seem to want to handle it. Very imprecise. There
    doesn't seem to be a good way to do it, not without marking
    everything in between as read.

    I've used t-bird for mail, with hundreds of messages
    (one archive folder has over 5000). On an older machine
    I had with 4 gb of ram everything was slow (which would
    include scrolling). Now I have machines with 16 and
    32 gb of ram so paging is a non issue. If you've only
    got 4 gb of ram that would explain a lot.

    The nature of the complainant explains even more.


    Yes, this is definitely a PEBMAC issue (problem exists between monitor
    and chair).

    André

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  • From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to erik simpson on Thu Jun 6 19:19:20 2024
    erik simpson wrote:
    On 6/6/24 5:07 PM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    JTEM wrote:
      John Harshman wrote:

    Not sure what you mean. I have no problem scrolling in Thunderbird.

    There can be hundreds even thousands of headers, I have nine or
    10 on the screen at one time, the one thread I'm looking for is
    maybe 42 headers down, I've go to scroll down...

    It doesn't seem to want to handle it. Very imprecise. There
    doesn't seem to be a good way to do it, not without marking
    everything in between as read.

    I've used t-bird for mail, with hundreds of messages
    (one archive folder has over 5000). On an older machine
    I had with 4 gb of ram everything was slow (which would
    include scrolling). Now I have machines with 16 and
    32 gb of ram so paging is a non issue. If you've only
    got 4 gb of ram that would explain a lot.

    The nature of the complainant explains even more.

    Well, there is that. Just taking pity on him.

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  • From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Thu Jun 6 19:18:44 2024
    John Harshman wrote:
    On 6/6/24 5:12 PM, erik simpson wrote:
    On 6/6/24 5:07 PM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    JTEM wrote:
      John Harshman wrote:

    Not sure what you mean. I have no problem scrolling in Thunderbird.

    There can be hundreds even thousands of headers, I have nine or
    10 on the screen at one time, the one thread I'm looking for is
    maybe 42 headers down, I've go to scroll down...

    It doesn't seem to want to handle it. Very imprecise. There
    doesn't seem to be a good way to do it, not without marking
    everything in between as read.

    I've used t-bird for mail, with hundreds of messages
    (one archive folder has over 5000). On an older machine
    I had with 4 gb of ram everything was slow (which would
    include scrolling). Now I have machines with 16 and
    32 gb of ram so paging is a non issue. If you've only
    got 4 gb of ram that would explain a lot.

    The nature of the complainant explains even more.

    Still can't figure out how he can have only 9 or 10 headers at a time.

    Hint: number of fingers ...

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