It's been nearly a year I think. A good six months, at any rate.
I filed a case on it about 3 months ago, but the "My Questions" list doesn't show it.
At the time, I was … (read more)
It's been nearly a year I think. A good six months, at any rate.
I filed a case on it about 3 months ago, but the "My Questions" list doesn't show it.
At the time, I was treated to an entire digest of how I was supposed to examine 100 tasks going on in my system to see if one of them was causing memory problems... As if!
But here's the thing:
1. NO OTHER PROGRAM ON MY SYSTEM experiences the kind of stalls that Tbird sees,
and they are all laboring under the same constraints.
2. TBIRD STALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF WRITING A MESSAGE -- TWO OR THREE TIMES, in some cases.
That is a simple inability to grasp the concept of MULTI-TASKING in software.
Background processes can stall all they want. Foreground processes should NEVER see them.
3. TBIRD DOES NOT DOWNLOAD MESSAGES UNLESS AND UNTIL I AM USING IT.
I can have it open on the desktop for as long as I want. But once I click in it, THEN I see the
"downloading messages" alert. That too is a SIMPLE FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND MULTI-TASKING.
If the program is running, it should have been downloading things in the background--not
wait until I am attempting to use it to DO something.
4. TBIRD SUPPORT APPARENTLY BELIEVES IT IS BEST TO BLAME THE USER.
Again, a simple failure to understand the concept of multi-tasking is the root cause of the
problems I have been experiencing. But reporting the issue did no good whatsoever.
Instead, I was supposed to spend a day diagnosing memory issues -- "issues" that DO NOT
AFFECT ANY OTHER PROGRAM on my computer.
So I gave up. I moved to Outlook. Sure enough, no stalls. Big relief.
I have my inbox set up, and just imported my contacts.
That just leaves a few years' worth of old messages I wish I could transfer.
So I'll keep TBird installed, just to access those old messages, when I need them.
But as for daily use, no. It's history.
I write this message to explain why, in hopes that someone will learn from it.