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On 05/26/2011 09:58 AM, James wrote:
> Adam Carter <adamcarter3 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> As a  troubleshooting step - have you tried a new profile? IIRC the 
>> windows version has a profile manager, if the linux version doesnt 
>> have the same then just move the .thunderbird directory so it 
>> will re-create it with defaults when you launch it again. 
> 
> 
> Well I'll copy the .thunderbird file to a new dir (so I can browse it later)
> and see how this works.....

Both thunderbird and firefox can be started from a command prompt
with the -ProfileManager option.  Can be very useful for debugging
things like this.