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Thunderbird freezes and takes forever to open "write window" when I try to send emails

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I'm using Thunderbird 31.4.0 and when I wanna send an email Thunderbird freezes and it takes forever (in this case 20+ seconds) for the "write" window to open and ALLWAYS with the recipient left out.... and oh please don't get me started on how long forever is when I try to reply an email........ Thanks

I'm using Thunderbird 31.4.0 and when I wanna send an email Thunderbird freezes and it takes forever (in this case 20+ seconds) for the "write" window to open and ALLWAYS with the recipient left out.... and oh please don't get me started on how long forever is when I try to reply an email........ Thanks

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What is your anti-virus software?

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I'm using AVG Internet Security 2015 and I should perhaps also mention that I have a chosen few Thunderbird add-ons (adblock, email security and a few others) installed and that it works "so-so" when I run Thunderbird in "safe mode".

B.R.

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What your saying is your add-on collection is a part of the problem, re enable one at a time to work out which has the issues.

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Hi Matt, It seems to work better now. Thanks for the help.