Thunderbird is causing my laptop to run hot

[Peter Flynn]

On 19/11/2021 23:13, Liam Proven wrote:
[...]
> I use Thunderbird for my work email in my current job, and in my 
> previous job as well. In that role, I used it when I started, then I 
> had some minor issues which turned out to be due to the email server 
> and not T-bird's fault at all. In the meantime, I tried out
> Sylpheed, Evolution, KMail, Balsa, Geary, GNUstep Mail, and finally
> Claws, which I stuck with for a few months. Finally I switched back
> to T-bird.

I have done pretty much the same, and I'm using Tbird on all my systems,
but particularly on the desktop where it runs all the time, doing its
job of despamming and then filtering the remainder into different
folders. It doesn't crash or complain, so I'm happy with it.

> [...] the UI is pretty good -- they've removed some of the old crazy
> enthusiasm for tabs everywhere now, and it uses the new Servo engine
> so all the XUL stuff is gone, which annoyed me on Firefox but is not
> a problem on T-bird 

I have a few XUL plugins, especially Enigmail and Mail Redirect, which
are essential in my work. The interface is not fault-free: the location
of the Delete button in the per-message toolbar CHANGES depending on
whether the display is showing a single message or a thread, which is
crazy; and there is still no RETHREAD function (# and & in Mutt), but
otherwise it just works.

Peter