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My Thunderbird broke with the new update - see photo

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The tabs / menu headers are blurry and the top is black instead of how it used to look with a bird theme. I am not very tech savvy, but I tried everything. It updated yesterday and now it is all messed up. II can understand if the themes are not offered anymore, but the blurriness is strange. Can anyone help me get it back to normal?

The tabs / menu headers are blurry and the top is black instead of how it used to look with a bird theme. I am not very tech savvy, but I tried everything. It updated yesterday and now it is all messed up. II can understand if the themes are not offered anymore, but the blurriness is strange. Can anyone help me get it back to normal?
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gp said

Hello can you go to tools / Addons and themes and try to use the default system theme ?

Thank you! That worked. I suppose maybe the theme I had (that was still enabled) no longer exists. Your suggestion did the trick. Thank you again.

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blurry fonts is generally related to video drivers. Change whatever is set in the "use hardware acceleration when available" in settings and restart Thunderbird. That should fix the blurry fonts.

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Matt said

blurry fonts is generally related to video drivers. Change whatever is set in the "use hardware acceleration when available" in settings and restart Thunderbird. That should fix the blurry fonts.

Thank you for your response, I tried it and they are still blurry. In my photo the blurry words are in the black part across the top where the theme used to be, not in the message area. Anyway, thank you again.

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Hello

can you go to tools / Addons and themes and try to use the default system theme ?

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gp said

Hello can you go to tools / Addons and themes and try to use the default system theme ?

Thank you! That worked. I suppose maybe the theme I had (that was still enabled) no longer exists. Your suggestion did the trick. Thank you again.