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V 68 is slower than previous version

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rganderson.stl
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I saw the change in "ownership" of Thunderbird in the update for v 68. But what happened with the update? So many unnecessary changes, almost as if the entire architecture changed. My concern, as mentioned by others, is how slowly is executes -- typing emails reminds me of working on an old X-Windows terminal in 1975. Why? I have used Thunderbird on Windows almost since it was first introduced. Perhaps someone could motivate the extensive architecture change? (I am running Windows 10 on an HP i7 laptop workstation.)

I saw the change in "ownership" of Thunderbird in the update for v 68. But what happened with the update? So many unnecessary changes, almost as if the entire architecture changed. My concern, as mentioned by others, is how slowly is executes -- typing emails reminds me of working on an old X-Windows terminal in 1975. Why? I have used Thunderbird on Windows almost since it was first introduced. Perhaps someone could motivate the extensive architecture change? (I am running Windows 10 on an HP i7 laptop workstation.)

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Stans
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Tbird 68 is running just fine on my 3rg gen i5 non-workstation laptop. Which previous version exactly were you using before 68? Perhaps your installation needs repair. A clean installation of Tbird may help.

sfhowes
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What is the security/AV app on this laptop, and its settings for the TB profile folder? Also try TB in safe mode (hold Shift when launching) in case you have an add-on that failed to update. There are other factors that affect performance, e.g. Windows search indexing, corrupted global search index etc.