It all points to add-ons updates (language pack mostly) that somehow are
not fully compatible with thunderbird 78.3.
Those json startups may be somehow putting the references to undefined
entities in the xmls
> I too have this problem. It seems that if you go into your .thunderbird
> directory and delete the file addonStartup.json.lz4, thunderbird is able
> to start. Restarting tb usually causes the error to appearagain, but re-
> deleting this file allows it to start again.
>
It all points to add-ons updates (language pack mostly) that somehow are
not fully compatible with thunderbird 78.3.
Those json startups may be somehow putting the references to undefined json.lz4, thunderbird is able
entities in the xmls
> I too have this problem. It seems that if you go into your .thunderbird
> directory and delete the file addonStartup.
> to start. Restarting tb usually causes the error to appearagain, but re-
> deleting this file allows it to start again.
>