Anyone try out Thunderbird 128 'Nebula' yet?

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It takes at least 8 seconds to shutdown for me.

Tested with two IMAP accounts (GMail and GMX) on Mint Cinnamon and KDE Neon.

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That’s odd. Here, it’s opening and closing in less than a second. But admittedly, I only installed one account at this moment.

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Are you using a flatpak or a snap?

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Internet connection speed ?
Memory in computer, on what processor ?

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Took the easy way out.

Flatpak.

Correction: on LinuxMint Cinnamon, software was already there and presume upgraded on install.

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8Gs of RAM on SSD.

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For a while, i thought i wasn’t clicking hard enough on the close button.
But no matter how often i clicked, it would not close until the 8 or so seconds were up. Sometimes closing by accident, a browser behind it.

Have Outlook app on Windows 11 (the real, paid for one, not the default they install now) and it closes instantly.

Dual booting.

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What I would do is remove the Flatpak and do a package system install of Thunderbird.
There is clearly nothing wrong with your hardware or internet link.

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KDE Neon offers Nebula as Snap or Flatpak.
Pkg is still the “SuperNova”.

And i’m still on the step of learning how to install .tar files.
Sure, what am i waiting for huh?
Procrastination…

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So does that version have a delay?

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Haven’t installed it yet.

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Trying to think of something you could try with Nebula

  • run it in a shell sh -ex thunderbird
  • put it in firejail
  • are there any command line options?
  • use strace thunderbird
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Well… just finished downloading emails with SuperNova and it shuts down in a second.

Not what i was wanting, since Nebula was supposed to be the thing.
Based on Rust right?

Do you think it will be long before KDE Neon upgrades to Nebula?

Was thinking of going over to recent Mint LMDE 6, but I’m a KDE fan now…

Btw, forgot to thank you for your considerate interventions! :slight_smile:

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Not a speed or connection issue, should be enough ram at 8.

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LMDE ships Cinnamon by default.

You can change the DE after having it installed.
I already did such thing, and as a result had LMDE with XFCE.
Just a few apt install / apt purge…
KDE should be the same easy to install I think, however I did not try it so far…

Edit:

Hey look, what did I find for you :smiley:

There’s nothing new under the sun :slight_smile:

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It’s a keeper!

My next test drive for sure!

Thanks for the helpful dig. :wink:

The fellow sure has quite a few followers.

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Anything up to a year would be my guess

That may be the problem . Rust is too new for my liking

Another thought… are you syncing with any other computer? That might lead to delays… it might try to sync when you exit.

Thank you for kind words.

Pay attention to Laszlo… LMDE may well solve the issue.

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Yup.
Might get addicted to LMDE Cinnamon before trying KDE install.
Not syncing with other computers.

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Try
thunderbird --safe-mode
ie start it from the command line with that option
It disables extensions and gives more debug output

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