[tor-bugs] #13722 [TorBirdy]: TorBirdy 0.1.3 prevents Thunderbird from starting

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#13722: TorBirdy 0.1.3 prevents Thunderbird from starting
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     Reporter:  dkaeae    |      Owner:  ioerror
         Type:  defect    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major     |  Milestone:
    Component:  TorBirdy  |    Version:
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Comment (by lolol):

 i suddenly had this problem today after temporarily disabling the torbirdy
 addon because it was slow and i had a lot of emails to download (yes
 stupid reason, but it was messing up a lot). when i finished, i enabled
 torbirdy again and tried restarting thunderbird but it wouldnt start
 anymore.

 i finally fixed it by doing this:
 i have a seperate thunderbird profile which is mostly the same as the one
 which stopped working, except different accounts. i looked at the
 directories of each profile and made sure they matched. meaning i deleted
 some cache folders and other seemingly rubbish files from the broken
 profile which werent apparent in the good profile. though i dont think
 this is what helped. what i think helped was:

 opened up prefs.js of both profiles and did a compare and copied all
 missing preferences from the good profile to the broken one. they were
 mostly preferences torbirdy added i think. also torbirdy was uninstalled
 in that profile at this point. and then i reinstalled torbirdy and it
 works fine now.

 tl;dr: run thunderbird in safe mod and remove the torbirdy addon. close
 thunderbird. copy all missing preferences into prefs.js from a working
 profile which has torbirdy. open thunderbird and reinstall torbirdy
 extension. restart thunderbird and it should work now. im using
 thunderbird 31.4.0 on windows 8

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