thank you for all the perspectives.
fs, filesystem is raid10, ext4 for documents, mail.
filesystem of system/programs is raid 1, ext4
it may try more switches to quicken the program. David,
thank you for the reminder of userChrome.css.
nobody wrote of the worst problem, inconsistent view
columns, that you must conform per fold, also every news
group, there are too many folds to conform them all
manually. this bug is reported, but was tentatively
explained as a 'feature'
there is definitely something happening, even as I type the
text lags...no other programs are like this.q