Someone who I work with told me that after updating to El Capitan, Thunderbird slows down when they tried to open and move email messages and the spinning beachball was displayed, I have fixed this issue for now (hopefully it won't pop up again), is anyone else having this issue with Thunderbird in El Capitan?
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Could you share your fix? I just upgraded and am having the same issue. Thanks!
Sure,
My colleague switched off "Enable Global Search and Indexer" in the preferences.
Great, thanks!
No problem, I'm glad that it helped.
This thread is a few months old, but let me also say thanks for showing us how to cure what had become a thoroughly exasperating problem with Thunderbird. Where, whatever I did in Thunderbird, I'd have to wait for a few seconds for the spinning beachball to stop spinning. Now that I have disabled the "Global Search and Indexer", that problem is GONE. I take it that the purpose of the Global Search and Indexer is for efficient searches of e-mails, such that every word is indexed. But what a PIA. Of course, that Global Seach was just included in recent versions of Thunderbird, and defaulted to "enabled", so the problem seemed to just appear out of thin air.
I was so happy to find this thread... I only wish the fix worked for me 😟
I'm switching back to mac after 5 years away... avid TB user... but TB on os x seems terrible! Granted I've got 6+ GB of inboxes, but on Windows it was a non-issue. Not sure what I'm going to do... cannot handle seeing that ball spin every time I just go to switch a folder!
Just also want to say "thanks!" for this solution! I just installed TB and was having this same issue, and your solution handled it!
I use Thunderbird with SierraOS on the 17" in model. The spinning beach
ball is still horrible even after disabling global indexing.
Any other tips?
Thunderbird being slow (beachball)
