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(Get the code!)
Please stop asking for this to be a blocker. As a developer, I promise you that saying "this must be a blocker" only lowers the chances of someone actually looking at this bug.
A blocker must be something that prevents usage of the application, e.g. makes it impossible to develop or use it. If, for example, Thunderbird locked up every time it checked a feed, this would be a blocker.
A critical bug is one that causes crashes (but can be avoided, at least enough for testing), causes loss of important data, and otherwise makes the application a "ticking time bomb."
A major bug (this bug's current severity) is one that causes a "major" (not trivial) loss in functionality. For a comparison with Firefox, if bookmarks could not be created at all, it would be "major" (not critical or a blocker!)
And in any case, as a developer, I will also tell you that a bug is its reproducibility. Most development shops (which you PAY several thousand dollars to for software) make you sign agreements saying they won't do a thing unless you give them steps-to-reproduce.
There's a problem, but if I can't easily reproduce it, it might take me/someone hours and hours (possibly days) of testing to fix/figure it out. Does that sound fun to anyone? It sounds like a wild goose chase to me.
Anyway, some people are trying to help here and that is good - please, just stop making the helpful comments hard to find!
-[Unknown]