Revert the tab and address bar shapes to not be rounded

I absolutely hate the new chromelike tab and address bar shapes (rounded, smaller). Whole reason I'm here is because I despise chrome. Is there any way to revert them to… (lees meer)

I absolutely hate the new chromelike tab and address bar shapes (rounded, smaller). Whole reason I'm here is because I despise chrome. Is there any way to revert them to be larger and rectangular again, either through an add-on or in settings?

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I'm running Thunderbird and it won't open, emails are up but page is blank, just spinning pizza wheel

I'm on a 15" MacBook Air M5 running and updated OS to Golden Gate 27.0 a couple of days ago. when I Open Thunderbird the emails are up but page is blank, just spinning pi… (lees meer)

I'm on a 15" MacBook Air M5 running and updated OS to Golden Gate 27.0 a couple of days ago. when I Open Thunderbird the emails are up but page is blank, just spinning pizza wheel. I've force quit Thunderbird and restarted and force quit and shut down several times but ends up with the same result... just the spinning wheel. Any suggestions ?

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Don't understand ESR or where it came from

I see a "Thunderbird ESR" notice appears when I open my laptop. I searched to see what it means. I'm still confused. 1) where did it come from? 2) is it best for me? I a… (lees meer)

I see a "Thunderbird ESR" notice appears when I open my laptop. I searched to see what it means. I'm still confused. 1) where did it come from? 2) is it best for me? I am a senior not interested in lots of changes (except improvements), but I am not an organization. Should I do anything or just leave it?

Suzanne

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Thunderbird Empties and Redownloads Folders on Most Restarts

I'm running Thunderbird 156.0 on Windows 11 with ten IMAP accounts (Gmail, Outlook.com and Zoho) plus one Exchange account served by the Owl add-on, and until recently ab… (lees meer)

I'm running Thunderbird 156.0 on Windows 11 with ten IMAP accounts (Gmail, Outlook.com and Zoho) plus one Exchange account served by the Owl add-on, and until recently about 30 GB of mail held locally. On starting Thunderbird, folders are destroyed and re-created empty. It happens often, but not every time. The summary files are deleted, and in some cases the whole folder directory goes with its mbox message store inside it. The folders then come back in the folder pane holding nothing, and Thunderbird downloads all the mail again over several hours, re-indexing as it goes. When a folder directory has been re-created, it appears on disk with a numeric suffix, so one of my folders now lives at COMPLIANCE-1.sbd with an abandoned COMPLIANCE-2.sbd sitting beside it. Column layouts and favourite-folder flags are lost at the same time, because they live in the summary files. It happens on ordinary restarts, rather than after Windows updates or sleep.

Those orphaned directories have let me date three separate occurrences: 18 August 2025, 19 February 2026 and 19 September 2026 — those being the occasions that happened to leave orphaned directories behind. Most leave no trace, because the folder refills and the evidence is overwritten. Each has the same signature. A folder directory is created, and roughly five minutes later a summary file of about 1,200 to 1,500 bytes, which is an empty summary, is written into it. In the two older cases it was never touched again. In one event eleven summary files across two folder trees were written with an identical timestamp to the second, so it appears to be a single operation across a set of folders rather than something that walks through them one at a time. One of the destroyed folders left its mbox stores behind, orphaned with no summary file, while another was deleted whole with 50 MB of mail inside it, so there seem to be two different outcomes in the same event. Bitdefender is running, but its quarantine holds nothing from the September event, and there are no Thunderbird entries in the Windows event log for that period.

The part that may be useful is that I have reproduced it. On 19 September I renamed folderCache.json aside with Thunderbird closed and restarted. Eight minutes later folders were destroyed. The twelve I could identify were all children of INBOX, across two different mail providers, though other folders elsewhere were emptied in the same minute. The Exchange account served by the Owl add-on was untouched. At the moment of destruction the Activity Manager showed "[NONEXISTENT] Invalid folder: INBOX^Practice Filing (Failure)" on the Gmail account, where the correct hierarchy delimiter is a forward slash rather than a caret. My folderCache.json is 5.2 MB with about 13,000 entries, of which roughly 1,200 point at summary files that no longer exist and 9,600 sit under an obsolete lowercase profile path from the 129 to 139 version window. I would rather not delete it again given what happened, so I'm looking for any idea of what triggers this on an ordinary restart, and whether there is anything I can set that would stop Thunderbird discarding local folders when it decides they are missing.

I am going in circles with this. If I build a new profile, is there any point bringing the old configuration across, or would that just reimport whatever is wrong? I assume the address books and filter files are safe and that folderCache.json, prefs.js and the unified-folders directories are not, but I do not know whether the problem lives in the profile at all, or in how Thunderbird handles an account set this size.

Any ideas?

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short cut for search engine features

Assalamu Alaikum. i come here for feedback and suggestion. that is to add other search engine options like Yahoo,Yandex,Brave,ecosia,etc other opensource and secure engin… (lees meer)

Assalamu Alaikum. i come here for feedback and suggestion. that is to add other search engine options like Yahoo,Yandex,Brave,ecosia,etc other opensource and secure engine on top to search engine icon in search bar. Thanks in advance.

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Change the highlight color

The new lavender color for highlighting in the drop-down boxes and elsewhere is completely unwelcome. I want to restore the previous setting to blue. How do I do this? La… (lees meer)

The new lavender color for highlighting in the drop-down boxes and elsewhere is completely unwelcome. I want to restore the previous setting to blue. How do I do this? Lavender is a color I loathe and if I can't change it I will start using another browser.

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Facebook not loading, websites not showing popups, form entry information missing and more!

What has happened to Firefox over the past few days? Mine has become almost unusable! Facebook fails to load (it's a pain having to constantly clear the cache in order t… (lees meer)

What has happened to Firefox over the past few days? Mine has become almost unusable!

Facebook fails to load (it's a pain having to constantly clear the cache in order to re-sign in). Websites that I use to make hotel bookings fail to proceed past the login stage, online forms fail to show the required information to complete transactions.

All works well on Chrome - but I like the Firefox interface and have been using for many years.

Help!

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How do I recover my old profile

I did the new browser update. It wiped out all of the back ups of all of my profiles on my system in the User profiles. I need to get back the profile I was using yes… (lees meer)

I did the new browser update. It wiped out all of the back ups of all of my profiles on my system in the User profiles. I need to get back the profile I was using yesterday. I need this urgently.

Shawn Hoekstra [redacted phone#]

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/edited phone# and emails from community support forum

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I upgraded Firefox on one of my computers and I cannot get my original profile back --- I want Fire fox my way not the way you thinkk I want it -- How do I get my original profle back

I upgraded Firefox on one of my computers and I cannot get my original profile back --- I want Fire fox my way not the way you think I want it -- How do I get my original… (lees meer)

I upgraded Firefox on one of my computers and I cannot get my original profile back --- I want Fire fox my way not the way you think I want it -- How do I get my original profile back

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Bookmarks disappear

After a while bookmarks disappear from the browser tab and the only way to recover is to close the browser and open a new page that requires signing out of opened sites a… (lees meer)

After a while bookmarks disappear from the browser tab and the only way to recover is to close the browser and open a new page that requires signing out of opened sites and starting over. Just started with new update release.

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Certificate for imap does not come from a trusted source.

All of a sudden I am getting repeated messages as below: "Connection error. The certificate for imap.shaw.ca does not come from a trusted source. Click to open server sec… (lees meer)

All of a sudden I am getting repeated messages as below:

"Connection error. The certificate for imap.shaw.ca does not come from a trusted source. Click to open server security settings."

Not sure why, as things have been worker well. Checked settings all are configured correctly.

What now?

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