Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

[Nathan Grennan]

On 05/12/2009 02:21 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 05/12/09 21:20, Nathan Grennan wrote:
>> On 05/12/2009 11:46 AM, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Well, imap-over-slow-internet-links without aggressive local caching
> just doesn't fly. I really like the new 3.0beta behavior.
>
> /me used the good old SyncOnArrival extention before (with hacked
> version check so the 1.5 version works with 2.0 ...).

   Different usage patterns are at play. I do imap over fast internet 
connections, but then internet would be slow compared to during it 
across a LAN. I would think your folders aren't that big, because 
syncing huge folders would be horrible. Another thing that may be at 
play is the switch of the default from no sync to sync. So I didn't use 
syncing before, and so it wasn't a little at a time. Instead it was 
gigabytes all at once. Plus tens of thousands of messages at once.