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I've been using the Thunderbird e-mail client for years on three different operating systems: XP, Vista, Windows 7.
On all of these operating systems, it has always had the problem of e.g. I'll be writing an e-mail and suddenly it will just freeze, I can't type, and 10 or 20 seconds later it will "come back" and I can type again. When I look at the task manager when it does this, the CPU spikes to 100% during these times and the guilty process is Thunderbird.
The problem is not always the same:
- on XP it started out fine and these black outs got longer and more frequent
- on my Vista installation it would happen only once every 20 mails
- now on a new installation of Windows 7, it happens almost every e-mail I type and often when I pull the scrollbar down it will freeze, "(Not Resonding)" will come up in the title bar, and I have to wait 20 seconds before I can use it again.
What could be causing this? Has anyone else had this problem with Thunderbird?
This is happening to me on a Windows 7 64 bit machine but only when I first start TBird. Once it gets past the freeze, it will function normally until it is shut down. – JCL1178 – 2011-08-18T17:19:41.550
2What do you use Thunderbird for... POP or IMAP? News? Feed Reader? What anti-virus/malware software do you use? Any other software running that could be causing it? What kind of Firewall do you use? – Richard – 2009-10-25T14:25:11.350
I have a new windows 7 installation using the new microsoft antivirus software (free), I use thunderbird for POP emails, rss feeder (60 feeds), default windows firewall, I do e-mails that go back 2 years, perhaps it is indexing them or something will have to check, thanks. – Edward Tanguay – 2009-10-25T14:39:07.983
It happens to me, too. It's almost enough to make me drop T-bird. But Outlook is my only alternative, so I come to my senses and live with it.... – Joe Casadonte – 2009-10-27T14:01:37.507