I use Thunderbird for a newsreader and calendar and sometimes I get pretty tired of it. It has a number of annoyances which never seem to be fixed. Mostly the problem is the way the user interface gets tied up and freezes for seconds at a time. Sometimes 15 seconds or more. Other times it goes away so much that my typing I was doing when it went away is lost.
Really??? After all these years people can't figure out how to write a user interface for a 2.4 GHz CPU that doesn't make the USER wait on the COMPUTER!!!??? How many GHz are needed so the computer is always waiting on the user???
I recall being told (likely here) about an offshoot of Thunderbird that doesn't have this problem. Would that be SeaMonkey? Does it have any problems? Will it also read newsgroups?