[OT] Thunderbird 3 vs. 2

[Robert Clipsham]

On 10/03/10 23:53, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The kick-off meeting for Thunderbird 3:
>
> "Thunderbird 2 is quite sluggish, has poor asynchronous execution of
> tasks, poor focus control, and annoying modal dialogs on error. What do
> we do for version 3?"
>
> "Let's build on all that! We'll make Thunderbird 3 even more sluggish
> even on the best of machines. Let them wait for second with an old
> screen whenever they click on something."
>
> "Excellent! While we're at it, let's make the selection colors such that
> the user never knows where the focus is. That, combined with the
> slugishness of the UI, will go a great job at confusing people."
>
> "And how about this - let's even insert large delays at random while the
> user is typing an email. There's nothing better than typing out of sync
> with the screen!"
>
> "Awesome! To make the deal sweeter, we'll replace the useful filter
> functionality with a full-blown search. That would require us to index
> all emails in the background thus making things even slower, and will
> confuse the heck out of everyone."
>
> "Go Thunderbird 3!"
>
>
> Sigh.
>
> Andrei

It's a shame your experience of Thunderbird 3 has been like that. I've 
noticed almost no difference in speed between Thunderbird 2 and 3, and 
the search functionality is far more useful to me now, in v2 it was too 
restrictive for me... I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case for 
you though, that seems to be the way of Mozilla's apps atm, they get 
more and more bloated with each release :/ I don't use Thunderbird too 
much so the difference isn't too major for me, but with Firefox it was 
hellish, as I always have a minimum of 5 tabs open, most of which have 
ajax/js heavy apps running in them... If one of them triggered a bug 
it'd freeze the whole browser if not crash it. I switched to Chrome as 
soon as it became native for x86-64 Linux and haven't looked back :) 
It's a shame there's no other real alternative out there to 
Thunderbird... unless I'm mistaken of course :)