I am affected by this as well. I use Firefox and Thunderbird extensively so this is a really serious problem. I thought I'd wait a few weeks before upgrading to Raring in the hopes that bugs like this would have been squelched. That plan worked out well...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963736 Title: thunderbird and firefox freeze at random : must be killed and restarted Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Thunderbird freezes at random. I must kill it then reload it. Sometimes the freeze happens when sending a mail. I had no problem in 11.10. It happens several times a day. The only pattern that I can currently see is that the freeze happens frequently when thunderbird is using the network. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 $ dpkg-query -s thunderbird Package: thunderbird Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 45256 Maintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Version: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu1 [...] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/963736/+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

