Thunderbird email account will not remove, it freezes(Linux)

[eb0t]

I am running Thunderbird on Linux (gentoo)
when i want to delete an email account, i click on remove account and thunderbird locks up.
I have to close down the process as it just freezes.
has anyone got any idea what it is

the version of thunderbird-bin i am running is 52.3.0
any help will be greatly appreciated.

[tanstaafl]

Try again using safe mode (help ->restart with add-ons disabled) in case its due to a side effect of an add-on that doesn't work well with the latest version.