From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:17 WST-8WST,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,0 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2083 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Friday 13 July 2012 Number 2083 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Firefox/Thunderbird recommendations : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:24:02 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Firefox/Thunderbird recommendations Does anyone have a feel for what are the best current versions of Firefox and Thunderbird? Until a couple of days ago I was using version 4.something of Firefox, and a much older version of Thunderbird. I decided to upgrade because I wanted to make Google search results show as true links rather than the default tracking behaviour, and the Firefox extensions to defeat Google privacy violations all seem to require newer versions of Firefox than I had. So I'm now running version 10.0.5 of both programs, but it's turning out to be a disaster. I can probably live with the Thunderbird changes -- the stupid and pointless tabs are still there, and I'm still struggling to find acceptable fonts, but the worst idiocies of the Thunderbird 3 "enhancements" seem to have been removed. The main catch is that it chews up an awful amount of processor time even when it's apparently doing nothing. But Firefox 10.0.5 is definitely not ready for prime time. It crashes every time I use a right mouse click, which is unacceptable because most of the common tab operations require mouse clicks. On top of that it uses up huge amounts of memory, grows the swap file to over 100 MB in size, and it's noisy in terms of all the disk thrashing I can hear. I used to be able to run Thunderbird and Firefox at the same time, but I had to kill Firefox in order to compose this message without having to wait for minutes at a time for the system to catch up with my typing. So what versions have others settled on? Was 10.0.4 any good, or is it necessary to go back a lot further? -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===