Roll back from 115.4.3 just a little (earlier 115)?
As everyone here knows, Thunderbird 115 is a hot mess; sadly, as they cycle through new releases, it sometimes gets worse, not better. It appears from my update history that 115.2.3 was the most stable of the 115 versions. I'd rather go back to 102 but it seems that the profile was modified in 115 so that it is no longer compatible with 102. Thus a 102 rollback might require quite a bit of work to reimport the profile into a clean install. And I have gigabytes of important mail.
I'm not on 115.4.3 and it is close to unusable, as they screwed up regression in a major bug, and my bugzilla on it has sat unanswered, other than requesting I be nice to the devs. So as a lower-risk option might be to roll back from 115.4.3 to 115.2.3. Has anyone tried anything like that, or know the safest way? I don't know what booby traps they've planted to prevent any rollbacks. Thanks!
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1862302 Broken in 15.0, mostly fixed in 15.0.1, semi-broken in 15.4.1 but with a workaround (setting works backwards), totally broken in 15.4.3 (always jumps randomly).
> a) my bugzilla on it has sat unanswered, b) other than requesting I be nice to the devs.
a) unsolved yes but unanswered is simply not true, and b) it is a requirement of this venue and bugzilla that participants be respectful - there are not exceptions.
> So as a lower-risk option might be to roll back from 115.4.3 to 115.2.3.
Within a major version number, in this case 115, it is generally safe to go back to a prior point version. You can find them at https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/
fred37 said
My question is how to do it -- just run the installer over the existing one?
Yes, it should always be done in this way. Unless you want to run multiple instances of Thunderbird.
Your scroll issue should have been resolved in 115.5.2, thanks to a very helpful coder.
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