WAS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS..etc... now Thunderbird cant be killed

[chris]

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:53 -0400, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
> Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>         Diverging from the increasing number of posts on this desktop somewhat 
>         repetitive 'removing Unity' topic.
>         I reference a somewhat more pressing (for me)  problem with Unity and 
>         Thunderbird
>         
>         Precise 12.04 with latest updates.
>         Once Thunderbird is started in Unity more than once over a couple of 
>         hours it cannot be killed, at least on my machine, and it eats up memory 
>         and cpu time. My only option is to open a terminal and sudo shutdown now.
>         
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Probably not the solution you are looking for, but I simply, after too
many hassles with Thunderbird; installed evolution from the
repositories.  No more issues

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Cheers the Kiwi