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I am unable to Quit Thunderbird. MacOS Sonoma; TB 115.6.1, Mac Pro 2019. Hang text below:

AdapterDeviceID: 0x66a3 AdapterVendorID: 0x1002 Add-ons: google%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,amazon%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,chambers-en-GB%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 40525901824 AvailableSwapMemory: 1040973824 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20240105183125 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 1 CrashTime: 1705981620 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true GpuSandboxLevel: 0 GraphicsNumRenderers: 0 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1705709005 LastStartupWasCrash: 0 MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 94 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1705981506 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: Shutdown hanging at step XPCOMShutdownThreads. Something is blocking the main-thread. Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000000-T010) WR? WR+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} ProductName: Thunderbird PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 729776128 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 222 ShutdownProgress: xpcom-shutdown-threads ShutdownReason: AppClose StartupCacheValid: 1 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1705981506 SubmittedFrom: Client TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20240105183125","version":"115.6.1","vendor":null,"displayVersion":"115.6.1","platformVersion":"115.6.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":98304,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":32,"cores":16,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","name":"Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-3245 CPU @ 3.20GHz","family":6,"model":85,"stepping":7,"l2cacheKB":1024,"l3cacheKB":22528,"speedMHz":3200,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Darwin","version":"23.2.0","locale":"en-GB"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":null,"adapters":[{"description":null,"vendorID":"0x1002","deviceID":"0x66a3","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":null,"driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":5120,"screenHeight":2880,"scale":2}],"features":{"compositor":"webrender","hwCompositing":{"status":"available"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"},"webrender":{"status":"available"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"available"},"omtp":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":"MacPro7,1","hasWinPackageId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":true,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-GB","intl":{"requestedLocales":["en-GB"],"availableLocales":["en-US","en-GB"],"appLocales":["en-GB","en-US"],"systemLocales":["en-GB"],"regionalPrefsLocales":["en-GB"],"acceptLanguages":["en-GB","en"]},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true,"background":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":1048576,"browser.fixup.alternate.enabled":false,"browser.search.region":"GB","layout.css.devPixelsPerPx":"1.5","network.proxy.autoconfig_url":"<user-set>","network.proxy.http":"<user-set>","network.proxy.ssl":"<user-set>","network.trr.strict_native_fallback":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":1,"contentWin32kLockdownState":3},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null,"defaultSearchEngine":"google","defaultSearchEngineData":{"loadPath":"[addon]google@search.mozilla.org","name":"Google","origin":"default","submissionURL":"https://www.google.com/search?q="}},"profile":{"creationDate":13599},"addons":{"activeAddons":{},"theme":{"id":"default-theme@mozilla.org","blocklisted":false,"description":"Follow the operating system setting for buttons, menus and windows.","name":"System theme — auto","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.3","scope":4,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":18925,"updateDay":18925},"activeGMPlugins":{"dummy-gmp":{"version":"0.1","userDisabled":false,"applyBackgroundUpdates":1}}}} Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 103079215104 URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/thunderbird/ UptimeTS: 113.76406045 Version: 115.6.1 XPCOMSpinEventLoopStack: default: nsThread::Shutdown: IMAP useragent_locale: en-GB

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

I am unable to Quit Thunderbird. MacOS Sonoma; TB 115.6.1, Mac Pro 2019. Hang text below: AdapterDeviceID: 0x66a3 AdapterVendorID: 0x1002 Add-ons: google%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,amazon%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,chambers-en-GB%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 40525901824 AvailableSwapMemory: 1040973824 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20240105183125 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 1 CrashTime: 1705981620 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true GpuSandboxLevel: 0 GraphicsNumRenderers: 0 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1705709005 LastStartupWasCrash: 0 MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 94 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1705981506 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: Shutdown hanging at step XPCOMShutdownThreads. Something is blocking the main-thread. Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000000-T010) WR? WR+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} ProductName: Thunderbird PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 729776128 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 222 ShutdownProgress: xpcom-shutdown-threads ShutdownReason: AppClose StartupCacheValid: 1 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1705981506 SubmittedFrom: Client TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20240105183125","version":"115.6.1","vendor":null,"displayVersion":"115.6.1","platformVersion":"115.6.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":98304,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"count":32,"cores":16,"vendor":"GenuineIntel","name":"Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-3245 CPU @ 3.20GHz","family":6,"model":85,"stepping":7,"l2cacheKB":1024,"l3cacheKB":22528,"speedMHz":3200,"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Darwin","version":"23.2.0","locale":"en-GB"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":null,"adapters":[{"description":null,"vendorID":"0x1002","deviceID":"0x66a3","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":null,"driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":5120,"screenHeight":2880,"scale":2}],"features":{"compositor":"webrender","hwCompositing":{"status":"available"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"},"webrender":{"status":"available"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"available"},"omtp":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":"MacPro7,1","hasWinPackageId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":true,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-GB","intl":{"requestedLocales":["en-GB"],"availableLocales":["en-US","en-GB"],"appLocales":["en-GB","en-US"],"systemLocales":["en-GB"],"regionalPrefsLocales":["en-GB"],"acceptLanguages":["en-GB","en"]},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true,"background":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":1048576,"browser.fixup.alternate.enabled":false,"browser.search.region":"GB","layout.css.devPixelsPerPx":"1.5","network.proxy.autoconfig_url":"<user-set>","network.proxy.http":"<user-set>","network.proxy.ssl":"<user-set>","network.trr.strict_native_fallback":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":1,"contentWin32kLockdownState":3},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null,"defaultSearchEngine":"google","defaultSearchEngineData":{"loadPath":"[addon]google@search.mozilla.org","name":"Google","origin":"default","submissionURL":"https://www.google.com/search?q="}},"profile":{"creationDate":13599},"addons":{"activeAddons":{},"theme":{"id":"default-theme@mozilla.org","blocklisted":false,"description":"Follow the operating system setting for buttons, menus and windows.","name":"System theme — auto","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.3","scope":4,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":18925,"updateDay":18925},"activeGMPlugins":{"dummy-gmp":{"version":"0.1","userDisabled":false,"applyBackgroundUpdates":1}}}} Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 103079215104 URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/thunderbird/ UptimeTS: 113.76406045 Version: 115.6.1 XPCOMSpinEventLoopStack: default: nsThread::Shutdown: IMAP useragent_locale: en-GB This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.
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