On Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:23:33 GMT Wol wrote: > Which is sadly slowly proving itself a crap piece of software. > > I don't want to blame TB for the fact it keeps on crashing on Wayland > (although it's my only software which does that), but I'm just getting > totally fed up with the number of tabs that get opened. > > Looking on the web, the general response seems to be "well, don't open > so many tabs, learn how they work", but I don't open tabs! > > And I'm writing this email because I literally just watched TB open a > whole bunch of tabs in front of me. And they weren't even from the > folder I was in! They weren't even from the mail account I was in! > > And it's a pain in the arse because all of a sudden I've got a load of > emails marked "read" (because TB's read them for me) that I haven't seen... > > Cheers, > Wol
Just tested T'bird on Plasma Wayland and it does not crash or open any unsolicited tabs. I don't have any addons other than calendar, which works as advertised. Mozilla Firefox was rather unstable on Wayland until a month or so ago - can't recall what T'bird was like at the time because I do not use it regularly. I assume both applications use the same window rendering mechanism and widgets. After a recent Plasma/Wayland and/or Firefox update, I noticed it started behaving properly without flickering, or disappearing and generally becoming unusable as an application. Before its latest improvement I had to switch off "Use smooth scrolling" to stop it flickering and then minimise/maximise the window to get Firefox to stabilise. I'm mentioning all this in case a Firefox/T'bird and/or Plasma update will fix it. I have found desktop mail clients, for those of us who still use them, is a highly subjective choice. User brains are wired differently and the workflow of one client suits us better than any other. I think the best approach is to try other mail clients for a week or so and see if you can live with them, in preference to T'bird.
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