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Tabs will crash over and over again. I can barely look at any given page for longer than a minute or two. What happened?? Firefox was never like this before. It just crashed in the middle of me typing this LMAO. Using Brave in the meantime. This is ridiculous.

Whilst using TB the screen went white with dozens of little tabs along the top of the screeen with what look like page icons, as the app became 'not responding'. Re-loading didn't help - same screen. Re-starting didn't help. I uninstalled and re-installed TB but it is stil the same. Opening in Windows (11) safe mode produced virtually the same result except for a few seconds I was able to open the hamburger menu and select trouble shooting. Opened in trouble shooting mode showed several alerts of 'failed to connect with servers' (outlook.office365.com imap.gmail.com and Yahoo). Then it shut down as before 'not responding'. When open, TB is using some 80% of available memory., and I can only close it by using Task Manager. I'm a complete dunce at this stuff so, if anyone knows a way out of this hole, please use simple English! Thanks, Jeff

All the tabs, in both my profiles are constantly crashing. I cannot keep at a task for more than a few minutes without needing to restart the tab. Is this a setting problem? I've cleared the cache, and reset Firefox, to no avail. Thank you for any relevant advice and/or assistance.

I have followed all the other recommendations with, no luck. I am on Windows 11 and use Eset virus software. Thunderbird is not listed as running it Task Manager, and there is no Profile.lock (think that was what it was called) in the profile directory, and I have deleted the existing profiles and recreated it. I have uninstalled and reinstall Thunderbird, and I have rebooted my computer. I am frustrated and concerned I will loose saved emails and my address book! Help.

Running Windows 10 (have extended security updates). Starting at version 153.0 Firefox hangs (spinning cursor) until Windows realizes it is not responding and lets me stop the program. Seems to be independent of the website (even happened on a Mozilla page). Have tried a couple of 153.xx updates and also 154 but behaves the same. On a Dell Inspiron 7570:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.84 GB usable) Storage 932 GB HDD ST1000LX015-1U7172 Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 940MX (4 GB), Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (128 MB) Device ID 8036C0FE-3179-4D8D-8C72-672ED25B0ABA Product ID 00325-96206-88905-AAOEM System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen and touch support with 10 touch points

I have just re-started my problem when this system crashes again. For 3 weeks I have sent reports of sites being crashed. The has not been any changes. It happens when on web site and also when using E-mail. HELP!

For two days I'm having intermittent "hanging" when I'm typing a document or letter in Thunderbird. It has just dont that for the 2nd time in less than 10 minutes. Don't know what's happening but it's very frustrating. Am not having any other computer problems. Am running Windows 11 which is automatically updated by Windows. I think Thunderbird is the most current version too. Help please anyone! It does say "(Not Responding) at the very top of the page.

After a reboot and Windows 11 update today, Thunderbird (I believe it was v155) will not open. It asks for the password, then sits at [Not Responding].

I have copied my profiles (there are two, one dated 2023 with only a 1K .json file in it, and one created tonight while I was troubleshooting that's several GB and when copying, appears to contain all my mail folders although I can't access them directly from within the profile) to a separate location (my desktop).

I've tried the following (after checking previous questions here in Mozilla support):

(1) booting Windows into safe mode

(2) opening Thunderbird in Troubleshooting mode (Shift while opening), both in Windows safe mode and normal boot

(3) uninstalled Thunderbird from Control Panel, downloaded and installed a new copy of Thunderbird

All give the same result: "not responding", can't click anything. Can only wait or close.

I was able to disable an extension that I installed yesterday that had been working fine.

I'm also wondering if the problem is mail folders that are too large. I have some candidates for deletion but since I can't see any .msf files for them, I can't delete (because I can't open Thunderbird.

I'm leery of instructions to outright delete any Thunderbird folders/files because (1) I can't see my mail folders directly and (2) I'm self-employed and all my client and business emails are in there. Losing them woud be a disaster.

I'm tempted to try the Windows option of restoring my entire computer to an earlier point, say, this morning. But that seems like possible overkill if it's an issue with just Thunderbird.

I'm freaking out, please help!

When starting thunderbird, the program cannot find my e-mails and does not respond. It is frozen. deinstallation and new installation did not help. The version i do not know because I cannot open the menue.

After I open my Thunderbird email and use it for 15 to 20 minutes it freezes. I need to close it and I get a message Thunderbird is not responding. I then need to close the program using Microsoft to close the program.

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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Hello everyone,

yesterday I got quite a scare. While Firefox was open, a new tab briefly appeared showing the page about:processes, and immediately afterwards the browser closed itself on its own.

At the same time, Chrome was open in the background. When I clicked on Chrome, a prompt appeared asking whether I wanted to allow changes to be made to the system (the typical UAC prompt). However, I’m not entirely sure if this was actually triggered by Chrome or possibly by another application.

I clicked “No” on the UAC prompt and immediately unplugged my keyboard. I recently started using an ASUS ROG Falcata, which is connected via USB.

After that, I ran a virus scan with Windows Defender — it didn’t find anything. I also ran AdwCleaner, which also came up clean.

At first, I suspected the ASUS ROG Falcata (I’ve only been using it for a few days), since it’s almost like a small computer itself and can execute macros, patterns, etc. I was worried about a possible firmware bug or something worse. At the moment, I’m honestly hesitant to plug it back in and am using an old Dell keyboard instead.

Importantly, I wasn’t pressing any keys at the time of the incident.

Now I’m quite unsure what could have caused this.

Is there any way to trace this in Firefox (e.g., via logs)?

And is there any (event) log where I could check what triggered the UAC prompt?

One more thing I noticed: I shut down the PC afterward and turned it back on later that evening. Everything booted normally and is still running fine today. However, Firefox updated itself yesterday from version 148.2 to 149. Maybe that was somehow related (though there’s no indication in the Firefox update history that anything failed or similar).