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The last two days everytime I receive an e-mail Thunderbird freezes up my computer? Help.

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I think Thunderbird did an upgrade and now everytime I get an e-mail everything freezes up and I have to unplug and restart my computer. Any ideas?

I think Thunderbird did an upgrade and now everytime I get an e-mail everything freezes up and I have to unplug and restart my computer. Any ideas?

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In order for us to better investigate this issue you need to add a little more non-personal information.

Please add the troubleshooting information to your post To find the Troubleshooting information:

  • Open Help (or click on three-line-icon and select Help)
  • Choose Troubleshooting Information
  • Use the button Copy to clipboard to select all. Do not check box "Include account names"!
  • Paste this in your post.

Please also add the result of these troubleshooting steps to your post

  • Does Thunderbird work in TB Safe mode (see Thunderbird Safe Mode)?
  • Do you use anti-virus and firewall software? What is the version?
  • Who is the email provider?
  • Who is the internet provider?
  • What is the exact error message?
  • What steps did you take right before this happened?

Please post back with this information and any other questions you might have.

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I am unable copy to the clipboard. I have had 3 more computer freezes today when using Thunderbird. It always freezes up when I go to receive e-mails. They come into my in-box and the program freezes right after

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Start Thunderbird offline. Start /run: Thunderbird -offline

Or in safe mode offline Start /run: Thunderbird -safe-mode -offline

Then you can copy to clipboard

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Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 38.1.0
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0
   Profile Folder: Show Folder
             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20150707103124
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (pop3) pop-server.wi.rr.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp-server.wi.rr.com, plain, none, true
     OUTGOING: smtp-server.wi.rr.com, plain, none, false
   account3:
     INCOMING: account3, , (pop3) pop-server.wi.rr.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp-server.wi.rr.com, plain, none, true
   account4:
     INCOMING: account4, , (pop3) pop-server.wi.rr.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: smtp-server.wi.rr.com:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true
 Crash Reports
   http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-718ab104-bae2-44c6-a644-2ec632141212 (12/11/2014)
 Extensions
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     browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
     browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false
     browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false
     extensions.lastAppVersion: 38.1.0
     font.name.monospace.el: Consolas
     font.name.monospace.tr: Consolas
     font.name.monospace.x-baltic: Consolas
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     font.name.sans-serif.x-central-euro: Calibri
     font.name.sans-serif.x-cyrillic: Calibri
     font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode: Calibri
     font.name.sans-serif.x-western: Calibri
     font.name.serif.el: Cambria
     font.name.serif.tr: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-baltic: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-central-euro: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-cyrillic: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria
     font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria
     font.size.fixed.el: 14
     font.size.fixed.tr: 14
     font.size.fixed.x-baltic: 14
     font.size.fixed.x-central-euro: 14
     font.size.fixed.x-cyrillic: 14
     font.size.fixed.x-unicode: 14
     font.size.fixed.x-western: 14
     font.size.variable.el: 17
     font.size.variable.tr: 17
     font.size.variable.x-baltic: 17
     font.size.variable.x-central-euro: 17
     font.size.variable.x-cyrillic: 17
     font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17
     font.size.variable.x-western: 17
     gfx.direct3d.last_used_feature_level_idx: 1
     mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1
     mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true
     mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: 563d6fb1-d7ac-4cd7-b7ac-15cf60fe8cd
     mailnews.database.global.views.conversation.columns: {"threadCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"1"},"flaggedCol":{"visible":true,"ordinal":"3"},"attachmentCol":{"visible":false…
     network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true
     network.predictor.cleaned-up: true
     places.database.lastMaintenance: 1437506705
     places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
     places.history.expiration.transient_optimal_database_size: 167772160
     plugin.importedState: true
     plugin.state.flash: 0
     plugins.update.notifyUser: true
 Graphics
     Adapter Description: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0x2e32
     Adapter RAM: Unknown
     Adapter Drivers: igdumd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32
     Driver Version: 8.15.10.2226
     Driver Date: 10-15-2010
     WebGL Renderer: false
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 0
     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
     AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo
     AzureContentBackend: cairo
 JavaScript
 Incremental GC: 1
 Accessibility
   Activated: 0
   Prevent Accessibility: 0
 Library Versions
     Expected minimum version
     Version in use
     NSPR
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     4.10.8
     NSS
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     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     NSS Util
     3.19.2
     3.19.2
     NSS SSL
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     NSS S/MIME
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
     3.19.2 Basic ECC
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You copied to the clipboard in offline mode I assume. Does safe mode do anything different in online mode?

What anti virus are you using?

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If I go to start Thunderbird and try to get messages it will always freeze up and I need to restart my computer. If I go to safe mode to get my messages I can receive them. I use Webroot for anti virus. I did a compatibility check with Windows 7 and it says I have a compaibility problem with Thunderbird.

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I use Avast