Thunderbird v. 60 (64-Bit)

[tb]

I see that Thunderbird v. 60 (64-bit) is now available for download.
If I install it, will all my 32-bit settings/customizations be imported
too?

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[Andy Burns]

IME yes, but note the 64bit is/was only a candidate release, where are
you seeing 64bit release versions?

Not all add-ons may work, see Wayne's description here on 22nd July

[EnDeeGee]

FTP site

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0/

[tb]

I see it here:
<https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0/win64/>

Nothing on that page seems to indicate that it is a RC...
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[Chris Ilias]

The original poster is on Linux. :)

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[Andy Burns]

Chris Ilias wrote:
> On 2018-08-06 12:28 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
>> tb wrote:
>>
>>> I see that Thunderbird v. 60 (64-bit) is now available for download.
>>> If I install it, will all my 32-bit settings/customizations be imported
>>> too?
>>
>> IME yes, but note the 64bit is/was only a candidate release, where are
>> you seeing 64bit release versions?
>>
>> Not all add-ons may work, see Wayne's description here on 22nd July
>
> The original poster is on Linux. :)

But there does seem to be a 64bit windows version on the ftp server (GB
locale too) so I'll upgrade from the candidate1 version ...

[tb]

On 8/6/2018 at 12:08:08 PM Chris Ilias wrote:

> On 2018-08-06 12:28 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> > tb wrote:
> >
> > > I see that Thunderbird v. 60 (64-bit) is now available for
> > > download. If I install it, will all my 32-bit
> > > settings/customizations be imported too?
> >
> > IME yes, but note the 64bit is/was only a candidate release, where
> > are you seeing 64bit release versions?
> >
> > Not all add-ons may work, see Wayne's description here on 22nd July
>
> The original poster is on Linux. :)

While it is true that I sometimes use Linux, my question pertains to a
PC that has Microsoft Windows 10 and the 32-bit version of Thunderbird
installed.

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[Andy Burns]

tb wrote:

> my question pertains to a
> PC that has Microsoft Windows 10 and the 32-bit version of Thunderbird
> installed.

Well, the 60.0 (64bit) has upgraded my candidate1 version ok, I suppose
as there's no announcement, the 64bit is still "experimental" but has
been good for me for 2 weeks ...

[Wayne]

On 8/6/2018 1:32 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> the 64bit is still "experimental"

yes

[EnDeeGee]

Nope

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all/

will give you 60

[WaltS48]

A Windows 32-bit version 60. Not a 64--bit build of version 60.

"Please note that while the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows can be
used to run Thunderbird, only 32-bit builds of Thunderbird are supported
at this time."

<https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/system-requirements/>

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[Andy Burns]

Wayne wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> the 64bit is still "experimental"
>
> yes

understood. Is that down to lack of exposure/testing, or are there
known issues?

[Wayne]

manpower, priorities, testing, possible mapi issue

That said, we welcome users to test it. I just wish people would stop
saying it's been released or is supported.

[rebro]

A first result of my testing Tb 60 x64:
Unfortunately the excellent add-on "Manually sort folders" does not work
in the 64-bit version which means a major drawback.

[Andy Burns]

rebro wrote:

> Unfortunately the excellent add-on "Manually sort folders" does not work
> in the 64-bit version

Doesn't work? or doesn't like the version number?
if the latter you could try editing the maxver in install.rdf

[Henk de Jong]

It's installed and extensions.strictCompatibility is set to false.
"Manually sort folders" starts, but it shows no folders or accounts to sort.

The question is: doesn't work because of version 60.0
or doesn't work because of 64-bit?


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[Wayne]

I wager you a beer 64bit has nothing to do with that add-on not working.

[rebro]

Thanks.
According to
<https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders/>
it works with Thunderbird versions 45.0 - 63.0.
And so it seems to be the recent 64-bit version of TB 60 it refuses to
work with.

[Millwood]

You'd win - same behavior in my 32 bit system.

[Christian Riechers]

The extension is broken for quite a while, also for the 32-bit version.
For TB60 the author just bumped up the version compatibility, but didn't
fix the underlying problem. I'm not holding my breath for a fix, it
looks like it's been abandoned by now.
The extension should be removed from the add-ons site IMV.