TBird 31.3.0 Does it ever work?

It does one task. If I'm lucky. Then it hangs and freezes and triggers the "not responding" message. Usually it doesn't even do that one task before hanging and freezing and not responding. And it's been like this for so long, I can't remember when TBird worked properly. Same thing in safe-mode.
I'm tired of reading technical explanations and figuring out how to fix things especially when often, the proposed fixes, though well-intentioned, are illogical. I'm tired of the AV conflicts. I see that TBird can't get its act together. Surely there are other programs that work well with whatever AV program is installed.
I think the thing to so is get another email program.
Any recs out there for, you know, a good one ... one that actually works smoothly? "Cause TBird is atrocious.

''finitarry [[#answer-668186|said]]''
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If the antivirus added any toolbars into Tbird, I would suggest removing them. Look in the extensions list. In fact, it might be a good idea to check with Tbird safe mode to make sure that it is or is not an extension causing problems.
Failing that, I have been happy with SeaMonkey, so you might want to try that.
* http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
</blockquote>
I tried everything. Safe mode. Tool bar and extension removals and disabling. It's a piece of crap. I've been living with this hunk if junk for more than a year, mostly due to inertia and, I guess my general laziness.
I've had it with the reading and parsing through technical explanations every month, and the crashing, and having to shut it down on purpose hoping that it'd run better after a restart. It's not working for me. Ever. Ever. I mean one mouse click and the program shuts down for, I don't know, 40 minutes, three hours, until I reboot my PC.
This is no way to experience my email.
I'll check out seamonkey. Is it a cloud based program? I'm looking to avoid the cloud. Thanks for your help.

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Hello Mela1987,
The following article provides tips that can help resolve most issues with Siri.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4079
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