The Register: Why has Thunderbird turned into a turkey?
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An opportunistic and little-known software utility outfit has stuck another carving knife into Thunderbird 3.
The Performance Protector blog reckons the once-reliable email client has the profile of a virus. Let it loose on your systems, and wave goodbye to network performance and any spare CPU cycles.
Fair criticism? Yes and no. PerfProtector highlights two factors for the stress Thunderbird 3 imposes on a PC. One is that version 3, unlike version 2, downloads the full contents of IMAP folders by default.
The other is that it then creates a full text index of the material, but does so very inefficiently. Gmail seems to provide a perfect storm, as folders are downloaded several times.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08...nderbird_3_no/
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August 8th, 2010, 12:51 PM
