I've been using tbp for about 15 months from a portable hard disk at various sites. I also use ffp, xplorer2 and pstart, and I keep a couple of utils on there even tho' they are not strictly portable. I use the MrPostman to gateway into hotmail & yahoo. As long as I've used tbp I've always had to run it twice, sysints processexplorer and taskmanager always report the first instance as consuming 90%+ of the cpu cycles.
Why has it taken me so long to report - functionally it works fine, and even tho its a cpu hog, the OS is able to give other apps a reasonable slice of the action. I'm using 1.5.0.8, I tried v 2.0 beta but had problems so reverted to release version. Not sure what version of tbp I started with, whatever it was in about May 2005. I'd like to know if I'm the only person to experience these behaviours. The cpu hogging is apparent whether or not one is on or off line.
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I haven't had any issues with Thunderbird and CPU usage, and I've been running Thunderbird Portable for over a year. I'm currently running v1.5.0.8, and am trying out the latest Thunderbird beta (or is it alpha).
if you are minded could you run task manager or sysint process explorer and have a look at the cpu usage for portable t'bird and let me know what it says
thanks phild
When running on Windows XP, and use Thunderbird Portable v2 beta 1,
Task Manager reports that the thunderbird process is using 0 CPU, and when
checking 2 IMAP accounts and one POP3 account, the CPU usage peaks at 10.
As yet, I still haven't had any problems that have required me to restart thunderbird (and I'd know pretty quick if the CPU usage peaked, as my CPU heats up quickly at this time of year...).