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From: Pro Plyd <invalide@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Thunderbird Complaint
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 19:18:44 -0600
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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 ...