Why does thunderbird use so much resources?

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Why does thunderbird use so much resources?

Ok so I've noticed that since I've installed Thunderbird (the latest one as of a couple of weeks ago), the CPU and RAM usuage goes way up. I only have 8 accounts synced, and yet most of the time it is using more CPU than chrome with 50 tabs, and has over 500mb ram used. At times the CPU usage goes up into the hundreds of % (multiple cores I'm guessing?)... I really don't know what to do, I can't use iMail or whatever - it just ***** in comparisson.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Oct 11, 2012 1:43 AM

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JasonFear

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Oct 12, 2012 10:48 AM in response to isashach

This might be a better place to seek the answer to your question -

http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=8

Honestly, from my experiences with Thunderbird (since version 3) is: "That's just the way it is." But with 8 accounts and especially if they're all IMAP that's definitely a lot of data indexing.

Out of curiosity, why can't you use Apple Mail?

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