Test Pilot for Thunderbird

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by hardwareman on Mar. 27, 2013 · permalink

This abysmal add-on was bringing my system to a crawl. The hard drive was constantly chattering chattering chattering and I could not figure out why. There was lots of CPU activity for Thunderbird, and finally Procmon showed hundreds of access per minute by Thunderbird to TestPilotErrorLog.log and files in the TEstPilotExperimentaLog or some such folder. Googled and found out about "Test Pilot." Removed it and all is better. While it was installed it took 10-15 minutes to restart Thunderbird because it was accessing these files for several minutes after the GUI unloaded. Very disappointed in Mozilla for putting this on my system. Would give it 0 stars if I could.