Thunderbird is causing my laptop to run hot

[Peter Teuben]

Leave it doing it's thing, it's probably indexing or so. But eventually it
should go back to low CPU.

I have the same with digikam, when you have a lot of pictures

Firefox is exposing the emberassing fact of our online lives: JavaScript
left right an center grabbing our actions and sending it to the owners of
the advertisements. Green computing? No, quite red!
So i restart Firefox every few days. Sad.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, 00:21 Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Top shows CPU usage to be better than 80% and of course the laptop
> immediately runs cooler once Thunderbird is killed. Is anyone else
> having the same problem? Thunderbird has been my favorite e-mail client
> for many years, perhaps I should consider a lighter e-mail client? I
> have used Claws, the default e-mail client for the Raspberry Pi. It is
> definitely light weight but of course it's not as feature rich as
> Thunderbird.
>
> Firefox is just as bad, and at times even worse, making the laptop very
> sluggish if they're both used at the same time. I have used Chromium,
> maybe I should have another look at it? If it matters, I use XFCE as my
> desktop manager.
>
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> Regards,
> Phil
>
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