Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?= Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Thunderbird Complaint Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 18:52:23 -0600 Organization: Christians and Atheists United Against Creeping Agnosticism Lines: 34 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <6f5adcf5-8632-4253-8ebb-c4aae85e871f@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="89960"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AmM0vlY6tvQdNwYd9CPpLLjtgws= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 7D9CE229872; Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:52:22 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505B522986E for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:52:20 -0400 (EDT) id C913F5DC6A; Fri, 7 Jun 2024 00:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A430D5DC55 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2024 00:52:26 +0000 (UTC) id E5BC5DC01A9; Fri, 7 Jun 2024 02:52:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:52:23 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <6f5adcf5-8632-4253-8ebb-c4aae85e871f@gmail.com> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+XnAXjxkoUxBnWd0dlzsAd0X+QEKfyWFY= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3184 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 -- To email remove 'invalid' & replace 'gm' with well known Google mail service.