[orca-list] Thunderbird and Orca

[Erik Heil <eheil1 gmail com>]

Hello everyone,
Recently, I have began to use the Thunderbird e-mail client for some of 
my needs. Specifically, this is the version packaged and included in 
Ubuntu 12.10/Sonar 12.10 GNU/Linux. The client is fine, and for the most 
part, does an excellent job at what its designed to do. However, there's 
one major problem, which may or may not be related to the Orca 
screenreader. When I do a check messages operation, Thunderbird seems to 
consume almost all available capacity on the dedicated core that is 
assigned to this virtual machine. Consequently, some of the fans in this 
machine rev up to almost full-speed, which is of course variable. To 
make sure that I wasn't over-reacting, I closed Thunderbird, and after 
which this was done, CPU activity/fan speed returned to its previous and 
acceptable levels.  Have any of you experienced the afore mentioned 
problems? IMHO this behavior makes the Thunderbird client unfit for 
daily use. There are other problems, but that's for another thread, and 
I think I made this already too long.

--Erik