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