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palcal

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Posted: 08:08am 10 Jun 2018

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I use Thunderbird Mail with the lightning extension (calendar). Recently after something updated (presumably) Thunderbird won't respond. It has something to do with the Lightning extension. Finally I get a pop up about a script running on the page stopping Thunderbird, the script has something to do with Google Chrome. If I stop the script I can get rid of the Lightning extension and all is OK. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome and uninstalled and reinstalled various versions of Thunderbird many many times, but I can't get the calendar extension to work.
I searched the web and apparently it is a problem but I couldn't find an answer.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
Paul.

"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"

MikeO
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Posted: 09:54am 10 Jun 2018

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Hi Paul,

We use Firebird, Thunderbird and Lightening calendar and it all works perfectly. I also use the Google provider extension so we can share calendar events to ours phones again its all just works. There was a period a year or so back when the lightening extension didn't work but then Mozilla integrated the calendar, it sill appears as an extension not sure I understand all that but seeing it works, so what! I have screen shot my setup , hope it helps. Mike

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palcal

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Posted: 08:42pm 10 Jun 2018

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Thanks for that, didn't mention I am using Win10 are you using Win10.
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Paul_L
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Posted: 08:55pm 10 Jun 2018

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Paul in Oz, try running Thunderbird under Mozilla FireFox instead of Chrome.

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palcal

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Posted: 09:24pm 10 Jun 2018

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I am in the process of doing that at the moment.
Paul.

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palcal

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Posted: 10:39pm 10 Jun 2018

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Uninstalled Chrome and Thunderbird. Installed Firefox and am happy with that.
Reinstalled Thunderbird added the Lightning extension and no go, I get a pop up

Quote A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: chrome://calendar/content/calendar-month-view.xml:934

Will have a look for any more Chrome files.
I uninstalled lightning and Thunderbird works OK.
Paul.

"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all"

MikeO
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Posted: 12:21am 11 Jun 2018

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yes win10
mike

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palcal

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Posted: 12:56am 11 Jun 2018

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I figured that it is responsible for just about everything.
I have a Win7 machine in the workshop and it works fine.
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