thunderbird crashes on startup on default Debian Mate platform

[ndp]

Regardless of whether I run thunderbird from the launchers or from the command line on my PBP it crashes every time with the following output:

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thunderbird %u
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 3439
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
npallett@Debian-Desktop:~$ Exception ignored in: <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='ISO-8859-1'>
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
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I've checked dependencies and even re-installed thunderbird but the error persists

The thunderbird version is 60.9.0