Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Pro Plyd Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Thunderbird Complaint Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 18:07:06 -0600 Organization: Amateur Plyd Lines: 19 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: 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="88752"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.14 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:drJDL4cJ62nVu0JE8pCaZoIMa60= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id DE135229872; Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:07:16 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6BAF22986E for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:07:14 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.97) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1sFN8a-00000002T2U-2cFR; Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:07:20 +0200 id 95EFBDC01A9; Fri, 7 Jun 2024 02:07:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:07:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+YOCfPzTK8wUR/Tz0jK+CwV5YptDMmmeM= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2751 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.