The behavior described so well in Steve in comment 6 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/320057/comments/6) is still present in 3.1.9pre
I agree this is an upstream issue but the bug being tracked is only a wishlist request for an LDAP option and does not cover the UI freeze that is core complaint of this bug report.
The behavior described so well in Steve in comment 6 (https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/thunderbir d/+bug/ 320057/ comments/ 6) is still present in 3.1.9pre
I agree this is an upstream issue but the bug being tracked is only a wishlist request for an LDAP option and does not cover the UI freeze that is core complaint of this bug report.