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THUNDERBIRD slow start-up on MacOS Sequoia

Thunderbird Performance and connectivity
Wayne Mery replied 1 year ago
JP C
JP C

When I startup Thunderbird, it sometakes takes up to one minute.

I read on this forum that it maybe due to the linkes MacOS AdressBook. How can I "unlink" it?

Any other clues?

ANTIVIRUS turned off.

When I startup Thunderbird, it sometakes takes up to one minute. I read on this forum that it maybe due to the linkes MacOS AdressBook. How can I "unlink" it? Any other clues? ANTIVIRUS turned off.

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Wayne Mery
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See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems and post your results please.

JP C
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Hi,

I found other messages in the FORUM and found the problem:

It is the linked MacOS Address book which slows-down the start-up and freezes once in a while. I also saw that in the THUNDERBIRD MacOS Address book, there was an empty contact, duplicated for about 10 times... more and more often.

When linking the address book again, START-UP again takes up to one minute. The memory and CPU used by THUNDERBIRD and the ADDRESS BOOK hog up the entire computer...

Maybe I Shift this discussion to here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1831673  ?

Wayne Mery
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Thanks. That Mac issue is listed in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems