After implementing Christoph's and jooloop's solution, Thunderbird's responsiveness has improved significantly. This seems to have done the trick for me.
I agree with Rob and Martin about this being over the heads of many common users. I'm willing to provide any necessary information to help resolve this issue for others. -- Karmic: Thunderbird&Xorg hog CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448678 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp