Never had this happen before:  I had a couple Mozilla (1.7.11) browser
windows open and 3 T-Bird (1.06) windows open including one where I
was writing a long e-mail. I called up one of the browser windows and
was  looking for somethingi needed  for the e-mail.  When I went back
to restore  the message composition  window from the task bar, nothing
happened for a long time, so I clicked on several other task bar
buttons and eventually a browser window appeared, but the message
composition window taskbar button disappeared.  I was able to bring up
a Thunderbird inbox window and write a new e-mail and send it. Shortly
after that the original e-mail composition window, which had no longer
been showing on the taskbar, suddenly opened up, but this was about 10
minutes or so after I had last clicked on the taskbar to open it.

Should I just chalk this up to a freak event?  Are their memory leak
problems associated with T-Bird?  I didn't check the memory, but task
manager was showing low cpu usage the whole time.

Jim

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Jim wrote:

> Never had this happen before:  I had a couple Mozilla (1.7.11) browser
> windows open and 3 T-Bird (1.06) windows open including one where I
> was writing a long e-mail. I called up one of the browser windows and
> was  looking for somethingi needed  for the e-mail.  When I went back
> to restore  the message composition  window from the task bar, nothing
> happened for a long time, so I clicked on several other task bar
> buttons and eventually a browser window appeared, but the message
> composition window taskbar button disappeared.  I was able to bring up
> a Thunderbird inbox window and write a new e-mail and send it. Shortly
> after that the original e-mail composition window, which had no longer
> been showing on the taskbar, suddenly opened up, but this was about 10
> minutes or so after I had last clicked on the taskbar to open it.
>
> Should I just chalk this up to a freak event?  Are their memory leak
> problems associated with T-Bird?  I didn't check the memory, but task
> manager was showing low cpu usage the whole time.
>
> Jim
The only answer I have for you is to learn to Save your typed messages
often.  Hitting CTRL+S is a quick shortcut key, since your fingers are
already on the keyboard.

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gwtc wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> 
>
> The only answer I have for you is to learn to Save your typed messages
> often.  Hitting CTRL+S is a quick shortcut key, since your fingers are
> already on the keyboard.

Um, why use Mozilla 1.7.11 and Thunderbird? Wouldnt Firefox 1.0.7 be a
better 'fit' with Thunderbird?  OR, use the email component already
available in Mozilla 1.7.11 instead of Thunderbird.

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gwtc schreef:
> Jim wrote:
> 
>
> The only answer I have for you is to learn to Save your typed messages
> often.  Hitting CTRL+S is a quick shortcut key, since your fingers are
> already on the keyboard.

Or wait a bit until TB 1.5 comes out, which has an auto-save option
(also not perfect, while during the save, you temporarily can't type).

H.

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Hendrik Maryns

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:49:59 GMT, Moz Champion
<moz.champion@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>gwtc wrote: 
>
>Um, why use Mozilla 1.7.11 and Thunderbird? Wouldnt Firefox 1.0.7 be a
>better 'fit' with Thunderbird?  OR, use the email component already
>available in Mozilla 1.7.11 instead of Thunderbird.

I had adopted Firefox and Thunderbird a long time ago but abandoned FF
because of repeated disappearance of history files/auto complete
entries and other quirky behavior (1.06 and 1.07).  I suppose I should
migrate my mail settings back into Mozilla.

Will use the Ctrl S feature now.

Jim

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:48:23 +0100, Hendrik Maryns
<hendrik_maryns@despammed.com> wrote:

>gwtc schreef: 
>
>Or wait a bit until TB 1.5 comes out, which has an auto-save option
>(also not perfect, while during the save, you temporarily can't type).
>
>H.
Keeping my eyes out for the 1.5 final release.

TUVM

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