Apparently I can’t access Google Groups. Which sucks. I have several different Gmail accounts and I can’t use any of them with Google Groups. As a result, I can only read what’s going on in the Google Groups on my RSS feed – and not respond to anything.
Google, this may not be evil… But it is just plain mean. Cut this out, please, and restore access to Google Groups to Gmail users.
Default Series TitleFor the past six months or so I have been blaming the latest update to Thunderbird1 for being ridiculously slow. This charge has, apparently, been completely unfounded. At about the same time I also noticed a ridiculous deterioration in Firefox’s performance as well as an overall incredible slow down on my laptop. 2 It got so bad that I had to restart Thunderbird at least once a day and shut down all of these “I’m taking too long” errors.
Yesterday I had a brainstorm … what if having Thunderbird manage two dozen accounts with synching to four IMAP accounts was causing it to hog resources and freak out?
So, I archived a bunch of mail so that it wasn’t synching up, deleted a bunch of old RSS feeds I no longer read, and freed more than 10 GIGS of space off my drive. Poor Thunderbird. Here I was berating it, cursing the updates, when really it was my info-addiction that was causing the freakout. I can now use Thunderbird to communicate again! 3 OMG, I’ve missed it so. I had taken to using Gmail’s interface more often than not, which is a great web interface, but it’s not my dear Thunderbird!