thunderbird ui hopelessly corrupted (screenshot)

With this version much of the thunderbird UI is unusable and corrupted, with massive redraw failures. This affects Xorg and Wayland sessions on nvidia, nouveau, intel and oss radeon. (When I finally reported it, it was on nvidia/xorg but wanted to stress it wasn't particular to that environment.)

Reverting to previous version 1:52.2, which happened to be in my cache, works fine.

I realise this is from artful-proposed/main and what am I doing there? The reason being, the version is artful/main is still on thunderbird 45. Until now the proposed builds have been fine.

Screenshot attached. Resize the window and the chaos is quite animated.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: thunderbird 1:52.4.0+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-14.15-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: rachel 1809 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC2: rachel 1809 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: rachel 1809 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20171003222123
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Oct 5 10:31:06 2017
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-30 (66 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.254 dev eno1 proto static metric 100
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eno1 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eno1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.109 metric 100
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=52.4.0/20171003222123 (In use)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-22 (43 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1005
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: Z87I-PRO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1005:bd11/26/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnZ87I-PRO:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.family: ASUS MB
dmi.product.name: All Series
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS