Downgrading Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0

Nathan Grennan fedora-devel-list at cygnusx-1.org
Tue May 12 19:20:04 UTC 2009


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?




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