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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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