stuck in Thunderbird "restart to upgrade" doom loop and can no longer use it
For the past 3 days, I've been locked out of using Thunderbird email. When I try to open it, I get a "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Th… (read more)
For the past 3 days, I've been locked out of using Thunderbird email. When I try to open it, I get a "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" "Yes/No" option pop-up.
This is infuriating. After several hours, I'm still no closer to being able to use Thunderbird again.
If I choose to restart, nothing changes and I just get the doom loop pop-up again.
If I install uninstall (via Windows Control Panel), again I get stuck with the "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" message.
I can find no useful advice in the Thunderbird help and forums. It's recorded as a known issue. But no viable solutions found.
Using Windows 10. Looks like Thunderbird tried to update to 115.16.2 on 28-Oct-24 (not something I requested).
Please let me know how I can fix it.
And do something to fix this bug (which is a shocker).