Does the new Thunderbird have a memory leak?

[c clark]

I am new to ubuntu, please seek a second opinion
However, have you tried to roll back or remove the offending Thunderbird update.



> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:59:43 -0400
> From: evan at telly.org
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Does the new Thunderbird have a memory leak?
> 
> I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 and keep it fully updated. Recently there was a
> Thunderbird update (2.0.0.14)  and since then my two systems have become
> frustrating.
> 
> Frequently now mouse clicks just get ignored. They don't get queued or
> work slowly, they get discarded and have to be redone. I often need to
> re-click two or three times. The actual mouse movement has not slowed,
> but any click activity (text selection, cursor position, scrolling, etc)
> is very severely affected. Delays can be up to five seconds or more to
> get response. When I run 'top', Thunderbird is clearly the hungriest
> app, using 110M of resident memory.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Evan
> 
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