Thunderbird 24.6.0 suddenly stops accepting keyboard input in the middle of typing a message

On a system running Debian Testing (kernel version 3.13.10-1), at times Thunderbird 24.6.0 suddenly stops accepting keyboard input in the middle of typing a message. Some times, it will not accept keyboard input from the time a new message window opens (both from click Write or Reply).
Regardless of when the problem starts, I can still copy text from another source and paste it into the message, and I can still send the message.
Sometimes, the problem will clear up itself after a few minutes, meaning I can suddenly start typing in the open message window, but sometimes not, and I will have to close the message window and restart Thunderbird or reboot the system.

Tasks: 290 total, 1 running, 242 sleeping, 47 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.0 us, 0.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 98.2 id, 0.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 8101216 total, 6406932 used, 1694284 free, 46440 buffers
KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 280476 used, 8108128 free. 2714812 cached Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9498 pete 20 0 905252 171068 60844 S 4.3 2.1 0:36.22 chrome
1207 root 20 0 301372 31896 12592 S 1.0 0.4 40:04.04 Xorg
7904 pete 20 0 796904 75304 25496 S 1.0 0.9 0:54.16 chrome
7349 pete 20 0 1215536 345724 116416 S 0.7 4.3 3:29.51 chrome
7539 pete 20 0 879076 128096 26512 S 0.7 1.6 1:51.35 chrome
7670 pete 20 0 826900 70488 23812 S 0.7 0.9 0:13.12 chrome
7793 pete 20 0 872564 135004 68628 S 0.3 1.7 0:13.74 chrome
7845 pete 20 0 811680 80360 23580 S 0.3 1.0 0:06.61 chrome
7877 pete 20 0 812032 79888 23668 S 0.3 1.0 0:08.91 chrome
9666 pete 20 0 23796 1808 1136 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.01 top
22931 pete 20 0 1094964 186504 22808 S 0.3 2.3 14:28.61 thunderbird
1 root 20 0 193016 2860 1260 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.67 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:22.21 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 1:09.66 rcu_sched
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
9 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 migration/0
10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.58 watchdog/0
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.58 watchdog/1
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:13.05 ksoftirqd/1
15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H
16 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.50 watchdog/2
17 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/2
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.84 ksoftirqd/2
20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/2:0H
21 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.52 watchdog/3
22 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/3
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:11.02 ksoftirqd/3
25 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/3:0H
26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kdevtmpfs
28 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
29 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 writeback
30 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd
31 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bioset
32 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd
34 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 khungtaskd
35 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 3:41.37 kswapd0
36 root 25 5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksmd
37 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khugepaged
38 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 fsnotify_mark
39 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto
44 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthrotld
46 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 deferwq
86 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff
88 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
89 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
90 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2

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