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Downloading email has become extremely slow, tedious almost.

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Downloading our email has become extremely slow, tedious almost. I suspect it may be related to recently updating the Thunderbird software, but I'm not sure.

Downloading our email has become extremely slow, tedious almost. I suspect it may be related to recently updating the Thunderbird software, but I'm not sure.

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Does problem change? (many users have found antivirus software causing problems)

If it did not get better, try changing the hidden preference accessibility.force_disabled to 1.

Please post your results. Thanks

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Wayne, This did not solve my problem. I'm not exactly sure that I followed all the instructions properly. I am using Norton Antivirus and security/privacy software.

I would like to try the last procedure, but am unsure of where to find this or how to acces to make these changes: "If it did not get better, try changing the hidden preference accessibility.force_disabled to 1."

Modified by dleemkuil

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dleemkuil said

Wayne, This did not solve my problem. I'm not exactly sure that I followed all the instructions properly. I am using Norton Antivirus and security/privacy software. I would like to try the last procedure, but am unsure of where to find this or how to acces to make these changes: "If it did not get better, try changing the hidden preference accessibility.force_disabled to 1."

Settings > General > Config Editor

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Did it help?

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No difference.

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Please try accessibility.cache.enabled=true - you may need to create the boolean

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Sual ver

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