Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

[Warren Togami]

On 05/12/2009 03:20 PM, Nathan Grennan wrote:
> On 05/12/2009 11:46 AM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> Nathan Grennan pisze:
>>>> I was just thinking the same thing yesterday. After trying to use
>>>> thunderbird 3.0b2, I have found it unusable.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried a fresh .thunderbird directory and switching to the i586
>>>> version from the x86_64 version. It is still horrible. I do have huge
>>>> folders with 10k+ messages in them. Thunderbird 3.0b2 seems to scan all
>>>> folders and download all messages. With the fresh .thunderbird I
>>>> started
>>>> with a 32mb .thunderbird folder, but after leaving it over night with
>>>> just one of my three accounts it was up to 2gb.
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493000
>>>>
>>> Thunderbird 3.0b2 seems to behave after I turn off the sync feature
>>> for each account. I think at the very least this feature needs to be
>>> turned off by default.
>>>
>> Afaik fetching whole messages (as opposed to headers) for IMAP accounts
>> was an upstream decision.
>
> I understand, but on the other hand does Fedora want a dozen bug reports
> over Thunderbird being useless, because of a crappy default?
>

http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/thunderbird-3-beta-huge-imap-folders-100-cpu-hang/

I don't know why, but this workaround seems to make thunderbird usable 
despite this problem.

Warren