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Millicent
Thunderbird version 128.0 is only offered as direct download fromthunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 115 orearlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier versions.
How do I determine what version of Thunderbird is running on my Ubuntu 16.4.1? I just built an old machine (PC) in installed the latest Ubuntu, found the Thunderbird email app, and saw if I wanted it in sync with my gmail, it had to be a certain version. Now I'm signed up and just need to find if I have a/the compatible correct version. I'm going to keep looking, just thought I'd get a quick answer.
Fortunately I have the hard drive from the Win 7 laptop as it was the motherboard that failed - but now find myself with Win 10. I have researched online to see how I can discover what version I was running on the Win 7 but can't find an answer. I can find the user\appdata\ - if I could simply find what was the older version, uninstall the present loaded version, find and load this older version then presumably I could simply transfer the old AppData into the correct area of Win 10? I don't want to lose all my emails. contacts etc etc and the 68.8.1 version files look very different from the version on Win 7 - I've been using it for a long timeIs the version number stored in the AppData somewhere please?? Thanks Suzanne
Since the version of TB on W7 can't be newer than the version on W10, 68.8.1, you shouldn't have any problem copying the Thunderbird folder from ../AppData/Roaming on the W7 drive, deleting the current ../AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird folder in W10, then pasting the W7 Thunderbird folder into AppData/Roaming. There might have been problems if the W7 TB was newer than the W10 TB, but that's not the case here.
But to answer your question, there is an updates.xml file in C:\ProgramData\Mozilla\updates\8216C80C92C4E828, where the 8216C... string may be different on your computer, that can be viewed in a text editor. The TB version history is shown in this file.
Thanks very much - just to play safe I copied & pasted the mab files just to check all would be ok - which it was of course. Getting my head around WIn 10 is a bit of a challenge - especially as I was pushed! So thanks again - Suzanne
I need to revert to Thunderbird 60.2.1 or 60.3.0 from the current version. Trying to find out how to do so has been a fascinating experience... every single thread on the forum that I've been able to find with a search on reversion goes something like this:
"Something in Thunderbird is broken and I want to revert to the previous version.""Oh, don't do that... explain the problem and we'll get it sorted out.""Well, OK... [long discussion and back and forth with lots of folks chiming in]... hey, that fixed it! Great, thanks!"
As soon as version 60.3.1 was auto-updated on my Mac, messages with attachments started bouncing back from servers, or arriving with corrupted attachments. This is a KNOWN AND UNRESOLVED ISSUE and I can't do my job as long as it's there.
I live and die by email at work and TB is my most-used tool, going back to like version 3 or something on old PowerPC Macs. I have been fighting for years to keep TB as my email client in an office that now uses Apple Mail, and even a day's downtime damages my case. I don't use add-ons at all, ever, so updates have never been a problem before, but this one's stopped me in my tracks. Even the time it's taken me to write this support message has kept me away from work, and I must get TB back on line NOW.
However, for the folks tracking bugs: the reason I asked about 60.2.1 or 60.3.0 is because I had been using version 60 (not sure of the precise rev) for several weeks without this issue, which only popped up yesterday. I don't know enough about the nature of the bug to understand why my first attempt, a downgrade to 60.3.0, failed to fix the issue.
You Google Thunderbird previous versions and you find this. 52.9.1 was the last version that works.The version list looks daunting but select your version.Then your operating system.Then the language you want. IE: en-US for US English.The click the .exe file.
Yes, I could have, if 60.3.2 existed at the time of my message, which it didn't. This was tagged as an unresolved bug and I'm sorry I didn't go rooting through bugzilla before asking about a reversion, but as I said, I was (and remain) in a hurry. The answer I got was exactly what I needed and I was back up and running in no time. I will try 60.3.2 when I can afford the downtime. Thank you.
The latest upgrade is nothing short of abysmal, and almost unfit for fit. Who signed off on this release really does need to take a long hard look at the concept of 'usable software'. Under the previous version, everything worked fine, under this one, I have so many problems its difficult to know where to start.
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My 'Inbox' currently has 404 messages in it, when I go into the inbox, it automatically opens half-way down the list - not with the first or last, just half way down, regardless of the order column or A-Z, Z-A order. So the first unnecessary action every time the mailbox is changed, is to scroll to the bottom to see new emails.
In a morning, when I first start up and it checks for messages, the number of messages will generally exceed the amount that can be displayed, so you scroll up and down to see the others, thats fine, standard practice. But if ordered latest at the bottom, and you start with the oldest new message, once you hit reply or delete, the list shoots to the bottom (ie latest) so you cannot see the current or next message in the list.
The search facility is now a joke. 50% of the time having typed in a search term (usually a name or email address) it opens a new window, does not do a search and blanks off the search - the new window shows no emails or search terms.
You also cannot move the cursor back or forth (with cursor keys or the mouse) to correct anything. If you notice a typo, the only thing you can do is delete back to the point and retype. Very infuriating, especially if you are searching on a term you have pasted in from the clipboard.
When the search does work, and it finds several emails you click on the email you want to look at. Previously this opened the email, now it opens a new search window containing just that email, which you then have to go and click to open the email. When your searching through 10-15 emails to find the one you want this is time consuming and frustrating.
Should you click on an email that has a discussion style reply, previously, it showed all the discussions and you could easily click between the various emails, which opened in the bottom panel, to read the discussion quickly and easily with the up and down arrow keys. Now only the latest email in the discussion comes up in the top of the new window, you have to click it to open in the bottom panel, but it also opens every discussion email in a new tab - which is horrendous if you have an email with 30-40 replies, as you then have 30-40 tabs to go close.
The whole system has become borderline unusable since this latest update, and somebody from Mozilla needs to get a hold of things and sort it. I intend to try going back to the previous version (although I suspect the email database will have been updated which would remove that as an option) and turning auto update off.
It used to be a nice, simple, quick and easy to use piece of software, one of the best for managing emails and multiple accounts. But this latest version is atrocious and just makes what was a simple task, now complicated and difficult.
Don't forget that you also can't add the Delete button to message windows. I always had a Delete button in the Mail Toolbar. The installer took it away, and it's not in the available icons to add back. Why?
Exactly this. Somehow 115 is missing the ease of use and intuitive use, 102 and previous had.
Sure, new versions of software always have the "getting to know it" factor in it. But with 115 this has gone too far. That ease of use, the logical UI, are gone or at least hidden deep
As a dedicated / suffering Firefox user and with a strong dislike for webmail, I've been looking for dedicated email clients forever, having suffered the coma ( Eudora '8' ) and life support ( 'Hermes' ) status of Eudora.
I periodically retry Thunderbird, which admittedly leaves me always setting it up again so waiting forever for IMAP sync, which Thunderbird seems very poor at (by default) but is also probably due to inherent issue with the protocol. I never used Eudora in IMAP mode which probably says a lot about why it was so usable.
I appreciate the developers have an extremely difficult job with Thunderbird. It's barely been maintained and wouldn't be a buildable, releasable product if not for all the development hours it inherits from Gecko (Firefox code base). It's hard to know how much work that inheritance also adds though. Continually triaging patches for their impact in a mail client context; having to pass on unpopular policies like the move to Web Extensions that broke so made so many developer's efforts redundant, requiring complete re-writes; the move away from XUL; the integration of a 60 FPS graphics engine target for the likes of WebGL and other APIs that are essentially irrelevant to a mail client, unless you think it's important to play 3D games natively in your Thunderbird.
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