this buggy behaviour kept occurring frequently so have tried sever things. the problem still occurs after: removing all plugins. starting in thunderbird safe-mode. removing and creating an entire new user profile.
the problem disappears after: disabling the visual effects. system - preferences - appearance - visual effects - none -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999020 Title: thunderbird 12.0.1 menu's not usable on lucid 10.04 Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: after the big update to thunderbird 12 i have several users with a recurring complaint, several times a day they would not be able to use the dropdown menu's in thunderbird.... the dropdown menu , for instance "file" or "edit", does show but the listed items are not selectable/clickable. this problem insists until thunderbird is restarted and will re-occur several times a day. not sure how to collect more debugging information To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/999020/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
