I've happily moved 90% of my main applications to a 4GB flash pendrive.
Speed is generally ok, the slowest application I use is Thunderbird Portable.
I can live with TP's speed, but it gets unbelievably slow when I select
View > Message Body as > Original HTML
I usually view emails in plain text, but sometimes I need to enable full HTML support. It then takes forever to even show short and simple emails.
Am I the only one with this problem? Any setting that might help?
I'm using TP v.2.0.0.5, I've disabled my AV email scanning and my pendrive is NTFS formatted.
Thanks in advance for you help.
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I can just give the usual speed tips:
Do you have usb 2?
Thunderbird puts all emails which are in 1 folder into 1 file. So if you have too much emails in one folder, it takes long to read even one email cause it has to ead the whole big file.
Dunno anything else.
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Thanks for your comment Simeon.
Yes, I use usb 2 and the inbox contains just a few messages.
If I chose
View > Message Body As > Plain Text
the message is shown immediately.
It is fast even if I chose
View > Message Body As > Simple HTML
It becomes a nightmare if I chose
View > Message Body As > Original HTML
(it takes a couple of minutes to even show a small email message, even if I don't click the "Load Images" button)
Another note: if I click on another message and then I click back on the HTML message, it takes forever again to show the message (the status bar shows "Loading message...")
I've tried disabling my antivirus but it doesn't help.
something with the html rendering/parsing stuff is slow.
Maybe you have to stick to plain text view :-(.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate