Mozilla Apps Problems

New Windows 10 Home laptop.

Thunderbird and Seamonkey are very slow starting and from time to time
they just stop and I have to wait many seconds before I get control back.

It is NOT an internet problems because I can stream L.A. live TV
stations without any hiccups for an hour.

I have both Seamonkey and Thunderbird running on other very old Windows
XP Pro and Windows 7 PC with NO similar slowness or pausing.

What is going on and how do I fix this ?

I use Seamonkey for newsgroups and Thunderbird for email.

NewBuy wrote:
New Windows 10 Home laptop.

Thunderbird and Seamonkey are very slow starting and from time to time
they just stop and I have to wait many seconds before I get control back.

It is NOT an internet problems because I can stream L.A. live TV
stations without any hiccups for an hour.

I have both Seamonkey and Thunderbird running on other very old Windows
XP Pro and Windows 7 PC with NO similar slowness or pausing.

What is going on and how do I fix this ?

I use Seamonkey for newsgroups and Thunderbird for email.


1) What AV are you using ?

2) Use Sysinternals Process Monitor, and see what things are
"active" while you're trying to use the programs in question.

There was a problem eons ago, where some AV needed to have
an "exclusion" set for the Thunderbird mail folder.

If Thunderbird is trying to access some files, that might
account for it freezing, if the AV gets there first.

Seamonkey is a suite, and supports more than one function.
Maybe you were using the mail at the time ? Or just the
browser ?

A wonky AV could do it. Or a wonky AV plus malware, in hand
to hand combat, can wreck a machine. I could get Kaspersky
to "lock up" a computer, if I tried to install FRAPS
(which is not malware).

Paul