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Thunderbirds freezes when getting RSS messages

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After moving to a more powerful PC i was very surprised to experience Thunderbird freezing and hang periodically. Impossibile to write o click anywhere for seconds every once in a while. After some investigation I found out that it happens when TB start getting messages from the many RSS feeds i subscribed. I never had this problem on old PC with the same feed subscriptions and probably an older version of TB. During the problem there is a heavy disk access and the image shows what Windows Resource Monitor reports.

Any idea or suggestion?

After moving to a more powerful PC i was very surprised to experience Thunderbird freezing and hang periodically. Impossibile to write o click anywhere for seconds every once in a while. After some investigation I found out that it happens when TB start getting messages from the many RSS feeds i subscribed. I never had this problem on old PC with the same feed subscriptions and probably an older version of TB. During the problem there is a heavy disk access and the image shows what Windows Resource Monitor reports. Any idea or suggestion?

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Image from Resource Monitor

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did you get a new anti virus with that new PC?

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Matt said

did you get a new anti virus with that new PC?

No, I have no AV, Antimalware or Firewall running