[arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%

[David C. Rankin]

On 08/08/2012 03:20 PM, PyroPeter wrote:
> <flame>
>
> Thunderbird really is a big pile of crap. There are bugs everywhere! I
> havn't seen something this bad since KDE 4.0. The only reason I didn't
> switch to mutt yet is that I don't know how to replace the filter feature.

You know when projects start playing the 'version number game' the important 
part of development suffers. I have used thunderbird for years without 
complaint. In the past 12 months it has archived mail into oblivion and really 
suffered a lot from the (I want to be a web browser too) bloat...

It is comical to think how many years it took to go from version 1.x to 
version 2.x in slow measured steps, and now:

[2010-04-22 22:19] installed thunderbird (3.0.4-1)
[2010-07-11 04:05] upgraded thunderbird (3.0.4-1 -> 3.1-2)
[2010-07-20 15:43] upgraded thunderbird (3.1-2 -> 3.1.1-1)
[2010-08-09 02:27] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.1-1 -> 3.1.2-1)
[2010-09-09 23:22] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.2-1 -> 3.1.3-1)
[2010-09-18 17:57] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.3-1 -> 3.1.4-1)
[2010-09-28 18:58] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.4-1 -> 3.1.4-2)
[2010-10-19 18:21] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.4-2 -> 3.1.5-1)
[2010-10-30 01:05] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.5-1 -> 3.1.6-1)
[2010-12-09 16:46] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.6-1 -> 3.1.7-1)
[2010-12-11 15:03] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.7-1 -> 3.1.7-2)
[2010-12-31 15:01] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.7-2 -> 3.1.7-3)
[2011-03-01 20:56] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.7-3 -> 3.1.8-1)
[2011-03-07 15:01] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.8-1 -> 3.1.9-1)
[2011-03-16 12:24] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.9-1 -> 3.1.9-2)
[2011-04-29 14:44] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.9-2 -> 3.1.10-1)
[2011-05-04 00:25] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.10-1 -> 3.1.10-2)
[2011-06-05 17:13] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.10-2 -> 3.1.10-3)
[2011-06-22 14:05] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.10-3 -> 3.1.11-1)
[2011-06-29 08:26] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.11-1 -> 5.0-1)
[2011-06-29 11:05] upgraded thunderbird (5.0-1 -> 3.1.11-1)
[2011-06-30 15:43] upgraded thunderbird (3.1.11-1 -> 5.0-1)
[2011-08-17 08:58] upgraded thunderbird (5.0-1 -> 6.0-1)
[2011-08-31 10:29] upgraded thunderbird (6.0-1 -> 6.0.1-1)
[2011-09-06 21:55] upgraded thunderbird (6.0.1-1 -> 6.0.2-1)
[2011-09-28 01:01] upgraded thunderbird (6.0.2-1 -> 7.0-1)
[2011-10-03 13:24] upgraded thunderbird (7.0-1 -> 7.0.1-1)
[2011-11-08 15:51] upgraded thunderbird (7.0.1-1 -> 8.0-1)
[2011-12-22 11:45] upgraded thunderbird (8.0-1 -> 9.0-1)
[2011-12-24 22:17] upgraded thunderbird (9.0-1 -> 9.0.1-1)
[2012-02-03 10:22] upgraded thunderbird (9.0.1-1 -> 10.0-0)
[2012-02-07 09:48] upgraded thunderbird (10.0-0 -> 10.0-2)
[2012-02-13 13:44] upgraded thunderbird (10.0-2 -> 10.0.1-1)
[2012-02-17 11:54] upgraded thunderbird (10.0.1-1 -> 10.0.2-1)
[2012-03-19 13:20] upgraded thunderbird (10.0.2-1 -> 11.0-1)
[2012-04-05 14:44] upgraded thunderbird (11.0-1 -> 11.0.1-1)
[2012-04-23 16:11] upgraded thunderbird (11.0.1-1 -> 11.0.1-2)
[2012-04-26 09:00] upgraded thunderbird (11.0.1-2 -> 12.0-1)
[2012-05-09 16:24] upgraded thunderbird (12.0-1 -> 12.0.1-1)
[2012-06-14 13:39] upgraded thunderbird (12.0.1-1 -> 13.0-1)
[2012-06-19 13:06] upgraded thunderbird (13.0-1 -> 13.0.1-1)
[2012-07-20 11:15] upgraded thunderbird (13.0.1-1 -> 14.0-1)

   Oh well, so goes many projects...

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.