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TB Editor Freezes while writing emails

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While writing a message the editor freezes, First 10-15 characters are fine, then every 10 characters or so it freezes -- comes back, but freezes again. You can't type at more than 1 characters/sec or so! So It has become pretty useless.

It has become unusable as a mail tool -- I have no themese -- no add-ons .. NOTHING .. only filters on incoming messsages.

I just reinstalled TB fresh -- no difference -- same behavior!

It happens with gmail accounts, yahoo accounts, hotmail accounts and my other imap accounts. I have removed and reinstalled TB -- no difference .. it freezes --

I do have large mail boxes -- of 7 accounts I have on it, 3 of them have more than 2GB mail data. But we aren't doing search -- just plain email writing is impossible.

I am using Thunderbird on MxLinux (Debia bookworm ) Installed TB fresh on new built machine in May, 2025. It worked fine for maybe a month and then it started this behavior.

While writing a message the editor freezes, First 10-15 characters are fine, then every 10 characters or so it freezes -- comes back, but freezes again. You can't type at more than 1 characters/sec or so! So It has become pretty useless. It has become unusable as a mail tool -- I have no themese -- no add-ons .. NOTHING .. only filters on incoming messsages. I just reinstalled TB fresh -- no difference -- same behavior! It happens with gmail accounts, yahoo accounts, hotmail accounts and my other imap accounts. I have removed and reinstalled TB -- no difference .. it freezes -- I do have large mail boxes -- of 7 accounts I have on it, 3 of them have more than 2GB mail data. But we aren't doing search -- just plain email writing is impossible. I am using Thunderbird on MxLinux (Debia bookworm ) Installed TB fresh on new built machine in May, 2025. It worked fine for maybe a month and then it started this behavior.

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If you are using ESR, 140.1.1 ESR will be available next week which has a performance improvement. If you are using release, 142 will be available in a few weeks with the same performance improvement.

If you haven't seen it before, you might find help in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

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