http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1374
--- Comment #22 from Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmx.net 2007-11-11 10:47:23 --- The fix for the opengl child window rendering bug 2398 requires modern video drivers support 'Redirected GL windows using' which requires Composite + OpenGL. At the moment Nvidia supports this and the latest intel drivers and some GIT versions of other drivers.
So if you are not using an nvidia card then that is the problem.