Hello TMG1961,
have you compacted your databases in Thunderbird recently ?
To do, in left pane underneath your email address it says inbox, right click your inbox and select "Compact" from the Menu.
You should compact the databases for each inbox/email account in Thunderbird.
To try and find the bottleneck -
you can see which Tasks are running by - Menu>System>Task Manager
you can see Resource Usage by - Menu>System>Resource Usage
Do you have any plugins running in Thunderbird, or do you it synced ?
I notice there were slowness issues mentioned on an older Ubuntu thread with cause being when running anti virus and Thunderbird on Linux.
I notice this link
on the final bullet point of Common Problems section it talks about - "If you are using Linux... try setting layers.prefer-opengl true instead....."
and also some other things to try such as changing to SilverMel theme
This final bullet point is only a small sized paragraph, but it is about things I do not understand, maybe you will understand it better when reading it.
Edit -
This link
explains about compacting Thunderbird folders, and also has a tutorial on how to set up automated compacting in future to your own specified parameters 8)
have you compacted your databases in Thunderbird recently ?
To do, in left pane underneath your email address it says inbox, right click your inbox and select "Compact" from the Menu.
You should compact the databases for each inbox/email account in Thunderbird.
To try and find the bottleneck -
you can see which Tasks are running by - Menu>System>Task Manager
you can see Resource Usage by - Menu>System>Resource Usage
Do you have any plugins running in Thunderbird, or do you it synced ?
I notice there were slowness issues mentioned on an older Ubuntu thread with cause being when running anti virus and Thunderbird on Linux.
I notice this link
on the final bullet point of Common Problems section it talks about - "If you are using Linux... try setting layers.prefer-opengl true instead....."
and also some other things to try such as changing to SilverMel theme
This final bullet point is only a small sized paragraph, but it is about things I do not understand, maybe you will understand it better when reading it.
Edit -
This link
explains about compacting Thunderbird folders, and also has a tutorial on how to set up automated compacting in future to your own specified parameters 8)