Why is Thunderbird pegging a core at 100%?

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Published on 2012-07-01T00:38:53Z Indexed on 2012/07/01 9:23 UTC
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cpu-load

I have experienced 2-3 unexplained lockup over last 10 days.

Today, I had a random lockup (no mouse, keyboard response, 100% CPU). But, when I finally switched (Ctrl-Alt-F1) to command line (it took several minutes) it told me that thunderbird-bin had locked a CPU.

I ran this to resolve:

pidof thunderbird-bin
sudo kill ####

However, after saving other work, I tried restarting Thunderbird. It went to 90%+ CPU, and within 20 seconds it locked again.

Once I have more detail I will raise a bug (on Ubuntu Forums).

Does anyone have any other suggestions, advice?

UPDATE

Thunderbird 13.0.1 is quite stable in safe mode. Still working to resolve ..

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