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Hi. First, I have more tech problems than I can shake a stick at and I m dealing with concussion and screens (monitors, cell phone, etc) aggravates and I don't track as well online as usual, so I'm asking for help sooner than I would hoping y'all can break it down very smply for me. Thanks for reading.

Thunderbird v.59.2 on Windows Vista desktop. Yup, Vista :-) Cable provider died, so years of emails to addresses using isp-provided email addresses are in Thunderbird but can't use emails.

In short term got TMobile 5G wireless and it is hideous, beware! For now I use my cell as hotspot to get on internet on old desktop.

I'll list what I've tried in a sec, but here's my ultimate goal: I want to get AT&T fiber installed and hooked up on new desktop (Windows 11) and install latest thnder bird there and bring over old files. Before installing at&t I have to formally cancel with former cable provider (it's in an odd limbo). I've assumed it's better to cull all email addresses related to those email accounts before severing all ties.

What I tried: Followed this thread https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1255223

I can't upgrade to v60 with Vista. I modified advanced config and added strict config Boolean setting and set to false and added check compatibility 59.2 setting and set to false.

The email crawler add on still gives me not compatible error. I restarted Thunderbird and that didn't help, unfortunately.

What can I do?

Again, my two main concerns are 1) harvest email address on my dead email accounts so I can send notifications of my new email addresses and 2) prepare to move all Thunderbird stuff to new desktop once I have working wireless internet to facilitate.

Thank you for your patience with my explanation and any help you can provide.

Still waiting for help with my annoying thunderbird problem. Once you help me solve it, my donations will begin. The browser link in my incoming email stopped working about 3 months ago. I have to right click on the link, start my browser manually and paste the link. I've tried it with Firefox, Edge and Chrome (preferred) and none of them work.

Every day. Videos won't play. sometimes one restart of firefox will fix it. sometimes multiple restarts are required before it'll work. The loading bar at the bottom of the video (on the seek bar) indicates the video is loading but it won't play. There have been times where I have disabled every single add-on and it would not work. Add-ons do not seem to be the cause. I have tried it in a private browser window with no joy. I have refreshed firefox, I have uninstalled and reinstalled it. I have tried disabling my antivirus. I have tested videos on websites in other browsers with no issue. The issue seems to be with the video player itself. overlays seem unaffected, I can use the seek bar and it shows the captions. I have tested different websites including Youtube, Vimeo and Steam. I tried many tens of times to get it working today to no avail. finally when I closed nearly all my tabs, the video worked (but I had also opened TOR and run avideo in that), I am not sure if this is the cause. If the cause is having multiple tabs open, this is an issue for me. I have a learning disability and likely ADHD and I have a set of tabs as my homepages so I don't forget things. If It's not the mutliple tabs, then what else can I do?

I have been receiving the following error code 'PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR' on several website on my Firefox browser. Sometime, not all the time, I get the same error message while trying to use YouTube, while other times the site loads but says that I am offline and no internet connection. I have done all of the fixes that they say to use online and nothing seems to work. YouTube will occasionally work but none of the thumbnails will show up. Then there are other site that work fine.

I have read through all 3 of the following posts linked below on this issue, and cant make it out.

I am trying to move the find bar to the top of firefox. Tried the really long codes suggested, and the short ones. Yes, I enabled "true" in the config settings. Added the chrome folder and text file, I think in the right section. Restarted firefox lots of times upon each code I tried, still not working.

Any ideas? thanks!

https://support.mozilla.org/ig/questions/1372399

https://gripfastistech.com/index.php/blog/82-move-findbar-to-top-firefox-69.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/11odffm/psa_incoming_changes_to_default_element/

When you use Google's Translator, this application automatically adds a link to Firefox's history each time you modify even a tiny bit of what you are translating.

This means that sometimes, you can add 1,000 links within a day when you incrementally translate a piece of text, what is the default way to do.

Today, two minutes of that work generated 40 links!

Example of a typical link:

https://translate.google.com/?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&text=Manchmal%20ist%20es%20wichtiger%2C%20etwas%20zu%20schenken%2C%20als%20wie%20es%20beim%20Adressaten%20ankommt&op=translate

And that was only a small piece of text!

In my history, there are in between 50,000 of these, despite regularly deleting many of them.

Even on a relatively fast notebook, deleting 1,000 links in the history takes minutes.

I posted the problem to Google Translate as a feedback many times, but they never answered.

Is there a possibility within Firefox to selectively get rid of this permanent garbage?

That would be wonderful.

I had to reinstall Thunderbird. A majority of the original Folders after installation are missing. Not in Trash. It is an IMAP account.

The Folders still exist on my ISP Zimbra webmail account.

I read what seems to apply in the Help section of Mozilla Thunderbird but couldn't find anything helpful.

How do I (can I) copy and move the missing Folders and the saved messages in them back into Thunderbird?

I'm a truly novice user please be as clear as possible.

I use TB daily on my PC .. yesterday all fine. Today W10 booted OK, I started TB and it opens with a page asking me to create an account ..... seems to have no details of my inboxes, accounts or filed mail

Rebooted PC - restarted TB ... same again

I checked on my iPad and all 3 accounts still working so it is limited to TB on my PC

Seems to have lost my profile(s) How do I recover ?

I only get 2 tabs ... blank Inbox and 2nd tab to set up email address (pics attached)

I couldn't find a category for Firefox accounts/Mozilla accounts, so this question will be posted in the Firefox forum.

TL;DR Is there any way to get in touch with someone at Mozilla who can correct a faulty notification email address for a Firefox/Mozilla account?

My best guess is that when I first created the Mozilla account, I used the Gmail address, and even after changing the primary and secondary email addresses for the account, the Gmail address still remains somewhere in some database in the backend and it can't be removed or changed by an end user. Is there any way Mozilla can fix this issue?

The full story

Today I received an email introducing the renaming of Firefox account to Mozilla account. The email was sent to my old Gmail address even though I've changed both the primary and secondary email address in my Mozilla account settings a long time ago.

Email notifications about sign-ins and/or changes that are made to the Mozilla account are sent to the correct email addresses that I've configured in the account. So the issue is with general announcement emails regarding Mozilla accounts.

I have not received the email about the Mozilla account renaming to the email addresses that are configured in the account. Somewhere down the line I will delete the Gmail account, but that will also mean that I won't get these kind of announcements and thereby risk missing important information regarding the account.

Hi all.

TB worked until it updated to 115.5.1 (32-bit) I can still receive email but cannot send emails from from hotmail account.

This is getting very inconvenient.

Has anyone the solution please?

Thanks.

Firefox 120.0 on openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps) results in CPU being pegged at 100%. No other tabs open. All I have to do is load the URL and do nothing else. This behavior is repeatable. CPU stays at 100% until tab is closed or browser is shut down. Sometimes the browser will hang and its PID has to be killed.

Offending process:

username 4501 4416 76 11:40 ? 00:05:13 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 27513 -prefMapSize 244227 -jsInitLen 228948 -parentBuildID 20231116134553 -greomni /usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja -appomni /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/omni.ja -appDir /usr/lib64/firefox/browser {659a1e89-c5da-416d-b720-558c24187847} 4416 true tab

When attempting to access the Help & Support section in Microsoft Intune through Firefox 120.0.1 on Windows it remains on a spinning wheel icon. I can access this successfully on the same PC through Microsoft Edge 119.

I have tried clearing out cookies, troubleshooting mode and re-installing Firefox to no avail. I've also tested on another Windows PC and have the same issue.

Yesterday Firefox started closing at random, sometimes instantly as soon as I open it. The crash dialog doesn't open, and if I go to about:crashes my most recent unreported crash is from 2019. Tried refreshing, reinstalling, completely wiping all profiles and starting fresh. If I use troubleshooting mode it won't open properly at all. I am at a bit of a loss, any ideas?

Win 10 Pro, Thunderbird 115.5.0, Mail Merge 10.3.0

smtp.comcast.net, Port 465, Normal password, SSL/TLS

Have been using Mail Merge for several years. Comcast e-mail send quota is 1000 messages/day. Mail Merge had been working well with occasional batches of 900+ messages.

Since updating to Thunderbird 115, Thunderbird stops sending e-mails after approximately 11 e-mails. Messages 5-9 kb each, no attachments. Screen shot of error message attached.

Thunderbird will resume sending if I exit Thunderbird, wait for cache to empty, restart Thunderbird WITHOUT the "ask to send unsent e-mails" activated, then use the "Send Unsent E-mails" menu item.

Do you have any idea what may be happening?

I have bought a new Mac Air and I want to get all the email address off of Thunderbird on my desktop and put them on Thunderbird on the laptop. I have had to move most of my files and items by Flash drive because when I migrated it the first time, I overloaded the laptop and had to start all over. So what file can I move from the library to get these on my new laptop?

Hi, I’ve run TB for a long time so before the change to TLS. I’ve used the settings below successfully all this time and don’t seem to have luck with other settings via Earthlink. But am now having problems retrieving emails from pop.earthlink.net

pop.earthlink.net port:110 smtpauth.earthliink.net port 587 Connection Security: None Password: Transmitted insecurely, not saved in password manager These are the same settings in an answered question https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1386214 These settings also work fine on my iPhone an have worked for years in TB.

Windows 7 64-bit The problem started several days after updating from a very old version 45.8.0 to TB v115.4.2 TB would no longer retrieve emails from the POP server. Click Get Messages and see no activity at all, no Error messages, no prompt for password after re-launch. Close / re-launch TB and same result. Uninstall TB and re-install TB and same result.

I finally resolved by uninstalling TB, manually deleting the profile which is not removed during uninstall. Reinstalled and same problem. Repeated again with no existing profile but with a PC re-boot in between. TB re-downloaded all emails, I had to import address books and TB worked for about 2 weeks. I do custom install to turn off remember password maintenance service leaving all others at the defaults and use manual configuration. Then advanced config to move forward since auto-detect doesn't succeed and there is no option in the initial install setup to choose password transmitted insecurely so the connection fails. It must be changed in the account settings afterwards.

Now the same problem/symptoms again. Updated to v115.05.1 from TB help menu and same result. Went through the uninstall/re-boot and that is not succeeding this time.

Another question suggested doing the following: Go to Thunderbird advanced configuration, set mailnews.pop3.loglevel to 'All' in the config editor (Settings / General) CHANGED from Warn to All and open Tools / Developer Tools / Error console. The following message was posted: mailnews.pop3.2: ConnectionRefusedError: a Network error occurred Pop3Client.jsm:369:18

Any thoughts on a solution?

Regards, p7

Mozilla has done it again. They seem to be on a mission to ruin their programs. I have already switched away from FireFox, and now I will have to switch away from Thunderbird if I can't downgrade.

I foolishly upgraded to 115.5.1. The new interface is more cluttered and takes up about 30% more space than the old interface. The bar at the top is wider, the bar between the email list and the email contents is wider. The side bar on the left which lists the folders is wider. And all this is happening even though I have "density" set to maximum. Furthermore, my favorite add-on is suddenly no longer working and I can't find a way to restart it.

What I need is this:

• Please tell me which version prior to 115.5.1 is the most stable and doesn't have any of the interface changes that 115.5.1 has. (How do I find out the number of the last version I was using?)

• Please give me detailed instructions on how to download such version and downgrade. I am NOT a computer person and I need clear instructions.

Thank you.

Hi. Recently Thunderbird automatically updated(current version is 115.5.1 32bit) on my win 10 Pro 64bit (v22H2) desktop, and now most of my accounts have a problem. My GMAIL account is the only one that I can both receive and send mail from.

Both Outlook accounts can receive mail, but only one account can send. Both accounts have exactly the same imap & smtp settings. Both have Authentication set to normal password. The account that cannot send mail fails login, the popup window suggests this is a password problem, but no password I have works. (this includes 2 MS generated App passwords).

Most importantly, my main Yahoo account cannot send or receive mail. I will just focus on this one for the time being. The 2 error messages I get are:- 1. "Connection to server export.imap.mail.yahoo.com timed out" (after several minutes) 2. "Sending of the message failed. The message could not be sent because the connection to outgoing server(SMTP) smtp.mail.yahoo.com timed out. Try again" (after several minutes).

Here are things I`ve tried.

Disabling the ipv6 setting using config editor as suggested here https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1401034 Changing the timeout mailnews.tcptimeout with config editor as suggested here https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1367042 Logged into my yahoo account through browser using email address and password. Deleted all app passwords for TB. Waited 24 hours. Logged back in to check changes had taken. Generated new app password, and took copy of it. Checked with yahoo that the spaces in the password should be removed. I deleted the Yahoo account from TB, and re-installed it, both with the automatic configuration TB uses, and the manual configuration method. Despite TB asking for a password (I supplied the newly generated Yahoo App password), there is no password for smtp, imap or OAth2 stored in the saved passwords within TB.

I have checked the imap & smtp settings against these https://help.yahoo.com/kb/manually-download-yahoo-emails-sln28681.html, and used OAuth on both incoming & outgoing. I have also tried these settings with Authentication set to normal password. I have tried these settings https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html with OAuth2, and with normal password.

I have previously temporarily turned off Avast free antivirus, as well as Win 10 firewall. Since there is activity on some of the accounts I`m assuming the problem is not this. I have also previously loaded windows in safe mode with networking, and that did not make a difference.

Outlook on my Android has no problems sending or receiving from any of these accounts. I can find no useful info on the net with regards to problems after updating, but refuse to believe I am the only one experiencing problems.

After 3 days I have run out of patience. I have exhausted information and options. Can somebody offer suggestions? Thanks in advance, Dave.

I'm trying to import my passwords from chrome and cannot get it to work. I've set signon.management.page.fileImport.enabled to true and have tried both directly importing from chrome and creating a csv file and copying from that, but chrome won't copy passwords over directly and when using the csv file almost all the passwords are listed as missing fields and won't copy over. I'm unsure if there's something i'm missing in teh copy process or if i'm just stuck manually copying over passwords