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Suddenly Thunderbird takes a long time to download even a few (10-20) emails from Gmail and then it freezes on an email and as I click on different emails only the original one shows on the bottom half of the screen, even if I change to a different folder/email account. Also it will not close when I hit the X in the upper right corner.

If I click on one of the other apps, such as Calendar it goes to calendar but when I go back to email it still shows that same frozen email.

I tried clicking on the three bars (hamburger) to find the Thunderbird version and nothing happens.

I have restarted the computer but that has not helped.

This is an add on to the previous portion that I wrote yesterday. Today nothing shows in the portion where I usually view the message after I've clicked on it. Also the options in the tool bar such as File, Edit, View etc. do not respond to a click after the first time I have attempted to look at a message.

I am considering uninstalling and reinstalling. If I do that will it find all my emails and folders etc. again? There are a few emails that I am quite desperate to access that I have put in folders.

I'd really appreciate any help I can get on this as some important work is being delayed until I can access those emails.

Thanks for any assistance!

I have a fairly old Thunderbird ESR Flatpak installed on my System76 Meerkat. Yesterday, it was working just fine. This morning, it refuses to launch, giving no error message from the desktop, and behaves as if something has been deleted.

I've been running TB for 10-12 years, generally with no problems. When I logged in on 5/13/26, I saw that Windows had run an overnight update:

    2026-05 Security Update (KB5089549) (26200.8457)

Thunderbird (version 147.0.2.0) was not running, although it had been when I slept the PC the previous night.

Now, when I try to start TB it gives me the crash report dialog. Selecting the Restart option just brings me back to the crash report.

In searching for possible causes, I see that this may be caused by a bad profile. So I open the profile folder with (run) %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ which in my case is:

  C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles

This is an empty directory. But if I go up one level to \Thunderbird there is a profile.ini file which contains (actual user ID replaced by <user_ID>:

[Install8216C80C92C4E828] Default=E:\Thunderbird\Profiles

[Profile0] Name=<user_ID> IsRelative=0 Path=E:\Thunderbird\Profiles Default=1

[General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2

"E:\Thunderbird\" is the correct location of my TB installation. In that directory is a profile.ini file that contains:

[General] StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/<user_ID>.default

Directory "E:\Thunderbird\Profiles\<user_ID>.default" is present. But all of it's files are dated 2010 except Mail, dated 2016.

Directory "E:\Thunderbird\Profiles" contains the ImapMail and Mail sub directories totaling about 25GB data.

I don't know what the Thunderbird startup process is or if this all looks correct. Can someone give me a sanity check? If this looks normal, what else could be corrupted?

Thanks in advance.

I have accidentally opened up hundreds of mail I meant to delete. I cannot access my emails, Thunderbird keeps failing to respond. I have tried closing each tab but I cannot tell what is going on. Help please. I can't give the version as it doesn't respond to any instructions

After Windows installed an update in the middle of the night I can't open Thunderbird and I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling with success.

It says: Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. The old Thunderbird process must be closed to open a new window.

I've rebooted the PC, shut down the PC, ended the task and still nothing. It seem that Thunderbird didn't shut down correctly and the system still thinks that it's open and running. Anyone know how I can fix this issue?

Thanks,

Gregg

Hello -- I'm hoping someone will be able to help!

I'm running Thunderbird 140.9.1esr (32-bit) on Windows 10 Pro version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.6466) with an Intel Core i7 processor.

Thunderbird suddenly started crashing repeatedly since yesterday. It ran long enough for me to install version 140.9.1esr, but still crashes repeatedly within a couple minutes of running the application, even if I don't do anything such as trying to reply to a message.

Please see below what I get in the Windows Event Viewer, pretty much the same for each crash. I have also pasted the contents of the following file (the others mentioned above don't exist).

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppHang_thunderbird.exe_5d8d3f9d863d0b28eacbd2a393cdc3d04ef559_c250478b_deffcb88-26f8-4204-bffd-7e6fd5a2ea88

I've gone to Troubleshooting Information, I've "cleared startup cache", I've tired "Troubleshoot Mode" and still Thunderbird crashes. There's nothing in Crash Reports.

Any help would be truly appreciated!

Best regards,

Miles Montelius

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The program thunderbird.exe version 140.9.1.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

Process ID: 2fe4
Start Time: 01dcc9b06a74fe27
Termination Time: 19
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
Report Id: 1f27bed4-950e-4cf2-b2be-0e17b3c5bff0
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Hang type: Unknown

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Fault bucket 2206417569010378635, type 5 Event Name: AppHangB1 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0

Problem signature: P1: thunderbird.exe P2: 140.9.1.0 P3: 69d0a82a P4: aa1e P5: 134217728 P6: P7: P8: P9: P10:

Attached files: \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1ECA.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1EDB.tmp.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1EE9.tmp.csv \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER1F19.tmp.txt \\?\C:\Users\Miles\AppData\Local\Temp\WER2554.tmp.appcompat.txt

These files may be available here: \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppHang_thunderbird.exe_5d8d3f9d863d0b28eacbd2a393cdc3d04ef559_c250478b_deffcb88-26f8-4204-bffd-7e6fd5a2ea88

Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0 Report Id: 1f27bed4-950e-4cf2-b2be-0e17b3c5bff0 Report Status: 268435456 Hashed bucket: 6bb25f0f2ae99d39de9ec516c30b678b Cab Guid: 0

================================= Report.wer

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For about 2 weeks, EVERY time I try to write an email, after typing a few lines or so, the whole window 'grays out' and becomes UN-responsive. I get no error message. Waiting for it to respond doesn't work and I have to close out and re-start Thunderbird. Sometimes Thunderbird will have saved some portion of my email in my 'Drafts' folder, but not reliably, so I have to frequently 'Control + S' - save it to avoid having to re-type the entire message again. Troubleshoot Mode doesn't help, nor does clearing the cache. I've been hoping an update would come up that would solve this, either from Thunderbird or Windows (11), but not so far. Please tell me how I should resolve this - I have used Thunderbird for years (and regularly contribute too) and don't want to have to change to different email client.

Verwalte über Thunderbird mehrere Mailadressen, jedoch läßt sich keine dieser Mailadressen öffnen. Es kommt ständig die Mitteilunbg , 'Keine Nachricht gefunden' . Bei Neustart kommt die Mitteilung Thunderbird wird bereits ausgeführt, und dann erneute 'Keine Nachricht gefunden ' ... !???

I've always experience occasional TB crashes. According to my log history there was 1 in July, 3 in Aug, 2 in Sep, 2 in Oct, and 6 in Nov. I never really paid attention since the reboot was quick. But now in December I am losing work and it is a major problem. I've had 30 crashes in Dec and 21 in the past week. I have only 3 add ons and they have not changed, and a Copernic connector. I disable the Copernic connector and it didn't help. I have the same 140.6 on my Surface Go with the same add ons, except for Copernic and it runs fine. On both PCs I use Malewarebytes and WinDef. I have put exclusions for them in their setups. Even with MBAM completely disabled I've still had crashes.

I cleared the Cache and no help. I've even had occasional crashes in Troubleshooting mode. Here are my last 5 crash IDs

bp-070bf941-4e8b-41a3-8b84-3e3440251224 bp-a936f7c2-9ee3-4c38-b304-dab830251224 bp-8be9cf9e-8f2f-49bb-95cf-47e780251224 bp-12f8fc2c-c505-40f0-8c67-44b730251224 bp-9013fb78-086c-4327-9de8-62db30251223

Interestingly I’m also experiencing crashes with Firefox, especially ChatGPT. I cleared the ChatGPT history and that helped but did not solve the problem. I cleared the Firefox cache and in troubleshoot mode still have issues.

Otherwise my win11 PC seems to be working fine. I’ve run chkdsk and all is ok. Also scannow is ok.

Is my next step a profile rebuild?

I'm able to add an e-mail account but when I go to add a second e-mail account, when it looks up the information, it just hangs with the circle going around.

This is true for two different user accounts on the same computer.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird but it didn't help.

Thunderbird can't be exited without killing from the task manager or shutting down.

Sadly Thunderbird often hangs, particularly if a network disk goes down. It is a strange hang, with the Inbox shown when hovering the task bar, but selecting it does not open the window. I have been observing this for perhaps 6 months.

In the past, it was sometimes possible to Close Window, else End Task, but neither have any effect. It seems that End Task is disabled.

Consequentky when Thunderbird hangs, the only way to restore Thunderbird functionality is to tidily close all other applications, restart Windows, which fails, hold power button for 5 seconds, then manually start again.

Why isn't Thunderbird killable?

Lange Zeit habe ich problemlos mit Thunderbird gearbeitet. Plötzlich kommt eine Fehlermeldung und nichts geht mehr: sehr ärgerlich. Ermöglichen Sie bitte umgehend den erneuten Zugang! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Wolfgang Beu

P.S.: Eine Vielzahl von gespeicherten E-Mails habe ich inzwischen gelöscht; daran kann es also nicht liegen!

My Thunderbird crash whenever I tried to "save as" an email, save the attachment of an email, attach a file to an outgoing email.

Every time I did the mentioned, Thunderbird prompts the normal window of my laptop's folders, but it disappear in a second with the Thunderbird crash and quit.

This situation happened after I installed MS365 on my laptop.

I did try the below: 1. Reset attachment directory - mail.compose.attach.dir 2. Run in trouble shooting mode 3. Repair folder index 4. Clear cache

Anyone can help please?

I became a THunderbird user recently to help me transfer e-mails from one system (e-mails sent to my e-mail address being collected by Gmail using POP3) - I have a gmail.com address too which shows all the e-mails in the same Inbox. Google are withdrawing support for Pop3. I am moving to Hostinger which happily collects and displays all my emails on its Webmail service. Thunderbird is a great tool for moving e-mails fro Inbox (and al other folders) from the Gmail to Hostinger. But yesterday it crashed and wouldn't restart = white windows says at the top 'not responding = and Windows Task Manager shows me Thunderbird still seems to be talking to one of my accounts and has 6 other tasks open. I stopped those tasks and closed Task Manager. I have uninstalled and re-installed but it comes back with the same symptoms and same tasks running. How do I stop this and get it back properly again

I've been trying to add yahoo account for several weeks, I type in the email address on the add account function and then I just get a wheel of death and have to force shut the programme, I'm on windows 11.

My thunderbird email repeatedly keeps crashing after being open for about 5 minutes or so. Time after time for the past 4-5 days. I have sent reports each and every time but the problem persists .can you please help me I will have no choice but to cancel my account and donation. Thank youbold text

I have Thunderbird 146.0.1 on a Win11 system, using POP. This setup has been in place from Windows 7, apart from the Thunderbird client version, and has worked up till the end of 2025. About October last year, I opened Thunderbird, and whenever I selected an email, or a number of emails, Thunderbird seems to get stuck trying to process something. The moving blue bar on the bottom right hand side of Thunderbird shows activity, but never stops. Taskmanager shows that Thunderbird is running, and that something is happening, but I cannot do anything with Thunderbird. I can only shutdown Thunderbird using Taskmanager. I have Norton AV installed, but I have turned it off, and the problem persists. I have removed all the emails from my inbox, and moved them to local files, and the problem persists. I have deleted and recreated my profile, and the problem persists. I have deleted the Thunderbird client and reinstalled it, and the problem persists. It doesn't matter if I select one, or twenty, emails, Thunderbird gets locked whilst processing something, and the problem persists. There is no issue with my Email provider, as I have checked using a webmail client. Emails are being processed and delivered from my email provider, and are received by Thunderbird. I would appreciate any suggestions as to the cause, or more importantly, a possible remedy. I have successfully used Thunderbird for many years, and I actively support them, so I am very keen to resolve this problem. Thank you in anticipation.

Ich habe Thunderbird auf meinem MacBook Air von Anfang 2015 geladen auf dem MacOS Monterrey läuft. Sobald ich einen eMail Account einrichten möchte stürzt Thunderbird ab. Was muss ich tun, um diese Abstürze zu vermeiden?