Thunderbird Pauses on Linux Lite 1.0.6

[shaggytwodope]

Finding the exact issue if problematic, if your using imap with Thunderbird you may have large a "database" of messages being indexed. Or a connection issues with your email provider. We can however try to improve some performance:



Navigate to Preferences > Advanced > General > Enable Global Search and Indexer (Uncheck the box shown in image above)


You can also turn off "offline" messages, if your using imap it may take quite a bit of cpu/ram etc to sync your messages for offline use.

In the account settings, (Your Account) > Synchronization and Storage > Keep messages for this account on this computer, un-check this box.
(This of course won't keep any locally copies, but since imap keeps it on the server there is little downside unless you need messages offline)


This all assumes your using imap, let me know if you are not. And we can try to find ways of speeding up Thunderbird.