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Why is there a thunderbird process running on Mac after closing Thunderbird?

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I'm running Thunderbird 56.0b3 on macOS 10.13.1 public beta 2 This week I've had a couple of times the problem that a process called thunderbird (not Thunderbird, and without the little icon) is shown running and using 58-59% of CPU. Needless to say, this makes the fans on this Macbook Pro mid-2010 run noisy. Now I know to check this and to do a Force Quit of the process. But there's a problem with Thunderbird on Mac.

I'm running Thunderbird 56.0b3 on macOS 10.13.1 public beta 2 This week I've had a couple of times the problem that a process called thunderbird (not Thunderbird, and without the little icon) is shown running and using 58-59% of CPU. Needless to say, this makes the fans on this Macbook Pro mid-2010 run noisy. Now I know to check this and to do a Force Quit of the process. But there's a problem with Thunderbird on Mac.

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Is it possible there is a parentlock file in the profile folder?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use#Remove_the_profile_lock_file

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Is it possible there is a parentlock file in the profile folder?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use#Remove_the_profile_lock_file

OveSentlig
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Yes, there was the file .parentlock ! Deleted it.

Thank you very much!