Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Orca

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Also largely depends on how big is your inbox.
I used to have all kinds of performance problems with Thunderbird, but 
ever since I classified my inbox and set the right filters I find it 
performing very good.
What happens is that when you refresh the inbox, Orca has to recalculate 
the list of emails and do all kind of things which need to keep it up to 
date.
Right now my 6 gb laptop with an I5 processor has gone for service and I 
am back to my good old thinkpad with 2 gb ram.
I see Thunderbird performing pritty wel.
Perhaps in a virtual box you have assigned less memory?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Thursday 31 January 2013 07:24 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hmm.  I remember having my cooling fans rev up quite a bit in prior versions
> of Thunderbird.  To test whether or not it's Orca, memorize the key strokes
> you use to run your search and turn Orca off before doing it.  Then, give it
> a few tics and alt f2 and type Orca to turn it back on.  I suspect Orca is
> indeed a key factor though.
>
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Erik Heil
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:51 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Thunderbird and Orca
>
> 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
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