Comment 20 for bug 411358

The error popup is coming from libgnomeui. It looks like libgnomeui overrides the default gconf error handler and the libgnomeui error handler puts up the error dialog. This isn't really a bug but the developers should probably add some basic checks for bad characters in the code before calling gconf.

I noticed the configure for thunderbird says libgnomeui is "optional at runtime",
does anyone know how? Does anyone know what gnomeui really does for Thunderbird?
If it can be turned off, that would be a work around.