Loads Slowly

Greetings. Have just installed Thunderbird 1.0 on an older machine
running 98SE and it takes it forever to load. Once loaded it is very
slow to process but eventually functions properly. P3,128MB EDO and JRE
1_5_1. Machine runs fine otherwise. All tips would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Note the system requirements

Operating Systems

* Windows 98
* Windows 98SE
* Windows ME
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows 2000
* Windows XP (Recommended)

Minimum Hardware

* Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
* 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
* 52 MB hard drive space

Note that while Thunderbird WILL run on a P3 with 128 edo, under 98SE,
it isnt until you get to XP and 500mghz (or faster) processor that it is
recommended.

How fast is the processor on this old machine?

 

Thanks Moz. CpuID says 333 MHz. I understand the minimums for Tbird,
but it seems like it should be doing better. MSOffice loads in a snap
and it's gigantic compared to the Bird.

 

Apples and Oranges. MS Office is a word processsor/spreadsheet/etc
program, TB is an email program - world of difference between the two.
Relative size of the application doesnt mean anything, as most programs
dont load completely into memory at any one time anyway (and Office
certainly doesnt).