I had this same problem, both with Firefox and Thunderbird.  I noticed
the following:

- all the problems began when I tried to point my Ubuntu profiles to my XP 
profiles
- both apps worked fine in XP the whole time
- as soon as I switched my profiles back to the Ubuntu partition, I could use 
both apps again

Looking around, I found one site that instructed me to create a FAT32
partition to store my profiles on so that both OSs could use them.  This
led me to believe that the problem was with Ubuntu's ability (or lack
thereof) to write onto XP's NTFS partition, where all my files are still
stored.

So, I did some looking around and came across this guide to letting
Ubuntu write onto NTFS:

DISCLAIMER: I am very new to Ubuntu and cannot promise that this will work.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

After following that guide both programs worked perfectly.  My Firefox
extensions from XP even work in Ubuntu still!

Hope that helps.

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