On Dec 11, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Dan wrote: > Thunderbird 3. > > heh. I figured I'd try it... My expectations aren't very high tho, > as I'm used to Eudora's fast and easy to use GUI... > > T'bird 3 is slower than T'bird 2 (which was already abysmal compared > to Eudora 6). Any tips on speeding it up? The 3 second (or more) > lag before it displays an email body is especially frustrating.
This is decidedly wrong. Try rebuilding your mailbox indexes. But that may be an IMAP solution for a POP account...on my new 1.6 Ghz atom netbook message display, even new message display is nearly instantaneous over a Wireless G network. > > Font sizes.... How do I increase the font size in the folder list? > In the message list? > Sadly a very longstanding issue with TBird. You cannot, afaik, adjust those things. > Global vs Local settings. I'm getting confused. There are things > in Preferences then often duplicate things in Tools>Account Settings. > Feels like confusing lame*ss windoze interface. How do I tell which > setting controls what? What settings are you talking about? Generally T-bird's been pretty good about keeping application and account settings separate. > > Security... Thunderbird does not use Keychain? Nope, neither does Firefox. Both have their own built-in password storage mechanism. Part of the cost of being cross-platform. I just went through this on my new Netbook, on which I'm running openSuSE + Gnome (which is remarkably Mac-ish in some ways) And still T-bird, with all it's flaws came out ahead of any of the other Linux apps I tried. (Several I gave up on immediately. Apparently they're incapable of recognizing that a computer may not have at least a 1024x768 screen and present you with a dialog box that you cannot see the bottom of. Plus Gnome has some weird ass mode I've managed to get into where it'll let me scroll down to the bottom of a window that doesn't show, but then I cannot click on it. Sort of like Expose, but tragically flawed. But this is a rant for another day entirely! But even with these oddities, which could well be my own inexperience with Gnome, the performance difference between the thing running WindowsXP and SuSE is staggeringly tilted towards the Linux side. I'm *almost* tempted to try to get OS X working on it, except that the one I have does not have a compatible WiFi, and a netbook tethered to wired ethernet is like towing a 35 foot Airstream with your SmartCar.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
