I'm seeing this today in the latest Thunderbird in 12.04 (seems to have started happening to me more often in the past few months, but perhaps that's due to some server-side change.)
It seems worth pointing out that when Thunderbird freezes with the address field drop-down displayed, the entire X session becomes unusable (due to the drop down menu having some kind of global focus?) until Thunderbird "thaws". So one cannot even go do something in another app while waiting for Thunderbird when this happens. Everything grinds to a halt. (Also note that per the upstream bug, the "workaround" referred to in comment #24 apparently just has the effect of turning off LDAP lookups, so it is not in fact a workaround at all.) -- 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/320057 Title: Thunderbird hangs for 10secs when auto-completing address Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Unknown Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird This bug seems to be very old, but somehow I didn't find it in Launchpad - forgive me if it's a dupe. When composing a new mail, I start typing a few letters into the address bar of the Thunderbird composer windows, and TB tries to autocomplete it from the address book. The drop-down menu appears, giving me the possibilities that start with the letters I typed, BUT - Thunderbird hangs (compiz darkens the window) for approx. 10 seconds - then it gets itself up again and processes complete normally, no errors, no wrong behaviour - and the address book searches are correct. First I thought it was the prefs.js, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Long_time_to_open_address_book Funny thing is, that I NEVER had used Thunderbird 1.5 before - but I had about 50 lines with that "nonascii" in it. I deleted them, and gone was the problem, for a few days. TB worked normally. Then the problem reoccurred. Now my prefs.js is clean, and it still has the problem. It might have something to do with LDAP search as well - I first thought it has to do with that: I have a LDAP server on a openVPN network which is not always connected - and I thought the delay was a network timeout when TB searches for the LDAP and doesn't find it. But I now disabled the LDAP address search in Thunderbird, and the problem remains. Also see here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=499016&p=2648760 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/320057/+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
