Random password prompts and slowness [was 115 is unusable, need help getting back the previous version] (win10)
First of, good on the person who came up with the name "Supernova"(for anyone who don't know, a supernova is the collosal explosion of a star that has run out of fuel) for this update as it is a perfect description of it, a horrid mess.
Ever since the update i keep getting prompts to enter my credentials for all my hotmail/outlook accounts, CONSTANTLY.. At first i thought it was just a one time thing because of the update, but no.. It'll calm down for a while and then the popups come back randomly.
I found no solution that worked in the support forum, and one particular last quip in a comment from a Top 10 contributor actually irritated me a bit even tho the comment wasn't directed at me: "My encouragement is to stay with 115 and work through the transition." Really? When stuff get's so bad that regular non techy people come here for help to downgrade, and that's the response, it's a sign that the people making thunderbird and the community members(As i understand it the community members do this in their own spare time out of the goodness of their hearts, and i do not intend to cast shade and hate on them, the people helping here are amazing) who try to help people on the forum has gotten too out of touch with the average Joe with 0 tech skills at all. Things that seem like simple workarounds or fixes for you, is like arabic writing to a first grader who only knows english, you have gotten out of touch with how truly clueless people are when it comes to anything more than simply accessing and using a program or app normally. If you have to make folders and css files to restore some of the ease of use you had before this update, then the update is catastrophically flawed from the get go. Updates for programs like this that changes things so dramatically, should NEVER go to auto update or release, it's so slow and laggy and buggy atm it would pain me to even call it beta worthy, it feels like the program is in an alpha test period.
Sorry for the rant, now for what i need help with. I want to go back to the previous version before any of the supernova crap got onto it, from a comment here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1426218 , David | Top 10 Contributor details how to go back to 102. So, i strap in and prepare myself for the looooong time it's going to take for all my emails to download again after doing a full clean install, BUT, i have a problem, WHICH of the !!46!! different 102 versions do i chose? I read that i had to use this archive https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/ to find older versions, but which of the versions do i use? Which was the latest stable 102 build? Unfortunatly that wasn't deemed necessary info, please help, i want to get away from the massive explosion of an update.
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I regret you are having all of these problems. I agree the new format looks different and I fully concur that the need for CSS to restore the prior view is a strong signal that this could have been done better. I discourage reverting to prior versions because they are at end-of-life. The new release does have its challenges, but most who stay the course eventually get it set as desired. I was one of those who struggled as well. However, what you requested was the prior version. That would be 102.15.1 and here is the link for the 64-bit version. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/102.15.1/win64/ And please remember that we on this forum are volunteers: we did not design the update, were not allowed to vote on the update, and certainly did not write any of the code. We just try to help people use it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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I regret you are having all of these problems. I agree the new format looks different and I fully concur that the need for CSS to restore the prior view is a strong signal that this could have been done better. I discourage reverting to prior versions because they are at end-of-life. The new release does have its challenges, but most who stay the course eventually get it set as desired. I was one of those who struggled as well. However, what you requested was the prior version. That would be 102.15.1 and here is the link for the 64-bit version. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/102.15.1/win64/ And please remember that we on this forum are volunteers: we did not design the update, were not allowed to vote on the update, and certainly did not write any of the code. We just try to help people use it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Mikki said
Ever since the update i keep getting prompts to enter my credentials for all my hotmail/outlook accounts, CONSTANTLY.. At first i thought it was just a one time thing because of the update, but no.. It'll calm down for a while and then the popups come back randomly.
One issue with login should have been fixed in 115.3.0 by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814823. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1843487#c7 describes a manual intervention. Is your authentication set to oauth?
Mikki said
A. I found no solution that worked in the support forum B. it's so slow and laggy
A. But this is your first posting of the issues you are experiencing?
B. What actions or circumstances are slow?
david said
I regret you are having all of these problems. I agree the new format looks different and I fully concur that the need for CSS to restore the prior view is a strong signal that this could have been done better. I discourage reverting to prior versions because they are at end-of-life. The new release does have its challenges, but most who stay the course eventually get it set as desired. I was one of those who struggled as well. However, what you requested was the prior version. That would be 102.15.1 and here is the link for the 64-bit version. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/102.15.1/win64/ And please remember that we on this forum are volunteers: we did not design the update, were not allowed to vote on the update, and certainly did not write any of the code. We just try to help people use it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Thanks for the clarification about which 102 version it is, and yeah i know you guys are volunteers and i mean no hate towards you it is the devs im mad at, im sorry if that wasn't clear enough in the post.
Wayne Mery said
Mikki said
Mikki said
A. I found no solution that worked in the support forum B. it's so slow and laggyA. But this is your first posting of the issues you are experiencing?
B. What actions or circumstances are slow?
A. Just because i havent posted about the issue before, does that mean i would have been unable to browse for others with the same issues and trying those fixes?
B. Several minutes after starting it slows down, everytime i get popups for credentials it slows, takes ages for things to be marked as read even with the setting set for it to happen immideatly and so on, i can keep going.
And yes, it is set to the auth thingy, i've been reading about workarounds and fixes even tho i didn't post before now ;)