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I am upgrading a desktop PC and have the opportunity to customize its components specifically aiming at improving and increasing Thunderbird's performance.

In addition to any software tweaking, what resources or combination of resources would contribute the most to increasing Thunderbird's performance ? Can I use RAM to cache some or all storage activity ?

The current profile and mailbox (IMAP) are >60GB.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi, I am using the latest version of Thunderbird, connected to three Gmail accounts (two are POP3, one is IMAP). I usually load up thunderbird once a week to backup all emails from Gmail. The problem is when I click the get new mail button it only downloads emails in batches of 14 or 20. I have to keep clicking the get new mail button to download all the weeks emails. I cannot find any setting to change this behaviour. I just want thunderbird to download all emails in one go. Is this a Gmail issue or thunderbird issue? Thanks in advance

James

I have Firefox version 136.0.2. I think it was quite recently updated. The right click menu is broken. The choice list is much longer, and the choices "open link in new tab" and "copy link" (ones I tried) do not work. This only started happening this morning. Right click works fine in Chrome. Screenshot included.

Hi folks, having a nightmare with Open Message In Conversation. Its partly not working, or when it does, it doesn't include everything that it should be.

I have tried all of the listed previous suggestions (re-doing the global index etc...) on this forum.

Can you help?

When in my inbox: Open Message In Conversation is completely greyed out and does nothing.

When in my outbox: It opens the conversation up to the date of that email, but doesn't include any mails that are more recent anymore (ie. the full conversation). When clicking on the most recent sent mail, it only shows my own replies, and the received mail is no longer included in the conversation.

This is a recent thing to happen, and incredibly frustrating as it's killing my work flow.

If you have any suggestions, I will try them all to bring it back to how it was!

Cheers, Lee

I use the French Search Engine, Quant in place of google. It works well, normally. I have just found the following message;

"We detected unusual activity from your device or network.

Reasons may include:

   Rapid taps or clicks
   JavaScript disabled or not working
   Automated (bot) activity on your network (IP 96.241.216.175)
   Use of developer or inspection tools"

I don't know why this has occurred. No one else uses my laptop. How do I get rid of this message and access Quant?

Two days ago I got a suspicious message in the form of a window that opened on my Firefox browser, purportedly from the author of Google Calendar Provider, soliciting contributions. Not expecting the window, and not certain of its authenticity I closed it.

Yesterday my calendar failed by popping up two notifications from my Google calendar via Thunderbird. I could not dismiss them. Other users have occasionally noted this issue. I tried closing and opening Thunderbird and rebooting. The alerts persisted.

So I removed the Google calendar from Thunderbird. The alerts went away. Hooray!

But when I reinstalled my Google calendar through Calendar Provider, the calendar showed up on the list of calendars, but non of its events appeared. Synchronization, closing Thunderbird, and rebooting did not help.

I can't tell whether I was hit by some kind of e-blackmail (pay up or else), or if something changed in Thunderbird, or what. No antivirus measures have been triggered, and my Windows 11 system is set up as a local account without administrative privileged. I am up to date on Windows updates. Running Thunderbird 128.8.1 esr

When I delete an email the attached message pops up that it "can't compact etc..." and when I hit ok it compacts the folders anyway. Sometimes it also hangs the program up and I have to close and re-open, but mostly it is just annoying. It also happens in troubleshooting mode. I am up to date with version 128.8.0esr (64-bit) in Windows 11. I got up, walked around my desk and sat back down but it didn't help; any other suggestions?

Firefox keeps crashing when I am trying to write comments on fb. The comment 'box' (I guess) lays itself over text, getting in the way if my ability to see text, or access the comnent, react , reply options.

Also, Add ons are mysteriously disabled. I removed the adblockers, and tried to relaod them The downloads failed. My remaining add ons are disabled I am not able to enable them.

I am unsure what the problem is, or how to fix it Please advise. Thank you.

I am trying to fetch incoming and outgoing sever of [mail.thehostelhotel.com] . The thunderbird is fetching https://thehostelhotel.com instead.

other emails are correctly fetching right server details.

I have tried to enter the right server details manually. however it does not connect.

please help.

Attachment is a screenshot shows task manger shows there are 64 open files open, when I have only 4 windows open. What would causing this?

Over night Firefox closes and close all my open windows. I need the windows remain open.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with me.

This is not a question. It is a statement of issues. I recently bought a new computer and tried to install Thunderbird on my new system. The installation went fine. The setup was one problem after another. Thunderbird required multiple attempts to connect with Outlook and sync my account. Next, I tried to import my contacts. Thunderbird failed numerous attempts to sync contacts. I finally had to manually import my contacts. Then spent an hour manually cleaning up my contacts. Thunderbird seems to have randomly assigned field names. (Names imported as numbers or dates) In addition, it imported contacts without associated data. (No email address, phone numbers etc.) After all that, Thunderbird would not allow me to use any of the contacts. The address book is there, the contacts are there, but it would not reference the address book when I tried to send an email. I had to go to the address book, copy the email and paste it into the to: field.

Next, I tried to create events and tasks. First problem, all calendars were disabled by default and no option was offered to enable the calendars. I spent another 45 min. trying to find a setting or something to enable the calendars. When I finally got them enabled, I spent another hour trying to get Thunderbird to create events and tasks. Thunderbird will not create either. I spent far more time than is rational to create each event and task. When I completed each attempt, Thunderbird trashed them. No event or task was ever created. At this point I uninstalled Thunderbird and wrote it off as a bad idea.

Folks, I am not new to this. I have been using similar apps since their early days. I know how to install and setup these apps. I am very familiar with the problems that may be encountered. And this far worse than anything I have seen in a long time. I do not know what is going on at Mozilla, but they have got some serious problems to work out. I will steer clear of Thunderbird for now.

At some point in the last few weeks -- possibly after an upgrade -- I've noticed that some websites such as the Washington Post and Fidelity can take minutes rather than seconds to load. The problem doesn't seem to be with the sites themselves (because they load fine on Chrome) or with my hardware (because exactly the same thing happens on both of my computers). Has anyone else noticed this?

( I'm running Firefox 131.0.3 on Windows.)

'''Hello! When I delete an email in any of my accounts all the accounts go blank ~ no messages show ~ and the screen announces "NO MESSAGES" or some such. I have to quit and restart to get my messages back.

Am I doing something wrong? Suggestions...? Thank you!'''

Mozilla Thunderbird's memory usage, can it be improved?

For some time now, the latest versions of Mozilla Thunderbird have been consuming a lot of RAM. On older computers, it even feels like they're taking up a lot of RAM. Is there any way to optimize Mozilla Thunderbird's RAM usage on a computer? If so, what methods do you recommend, and have they worked for you?

Greetings, thank you very much, and have a nice day.

Ruben Arno

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uso de memoria de Mozilla Thunderbird, se puede mejorar ?

Hace ya tiempo, las ultimas versiones de Mozilla Thunderbird consume mucha memoria ram, en equipos de computadoras no tan nuevas, se siente incluso que toman mucha memoria ram, se puedo optimizar de alguna manera el uso de memoria ram de Mozilla Thunderbird en una computadora o no? si se puede que metodos recomiendan usar y les resulto ?

Saludos , muchas gracias y que tengan lindo dia.

Ruben Arno

When I receive an attachment in an email, I have the option of opening it, in this case a PDF. Then the attachment is properly displayed, and one of the options given is to print the attachment. When I select print, I get a progress gif that just continues to spin; nothing gets printed. I can open the PDF with Adobe and print it so I know the PDF file is intact.

Help.