I love Thunderbird, it’s a great email client. But I recently got a bit concerned when it seemed to be eating all my CPU. At first I thought it was down to the new email indexer in Thunderbird 3.0. It turns out, however, that the problem has nothing to do with the indexer but with AVG scanning my emails for viruses. I switched off email scanning in AVG and suddenly my processor is behaving as it should.
Looking around the internet, it seems this is not a new problem (I only recently installed AVG), so the question is: why haven’t AVG and Thunderbird knocked their heads together to fix this?
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