File Storage Size and Location - Thunderbird using 36GB, gmail claims 6GB

HI, I have TBird 102.15.1 64Bit installed on several different PCs and laptops. On my main Laptop I checked the Roaming\Thunderbird folder properties and found the follow… (read more)

HI, I have TBird 102.15.1 64Bit installed on several different PCs and laptops. On my main Laptop I checked the Roaming\Thunderbird folder properties and found the following: Size on Disk: 35.8 GB Contains 253,172 files and 1,533 Folders. Is their anyway I can reduce the size? My TBird seems to be running slowly and occasionally stalls. I do not want to switch back to Outlook client program, I am not a Microsoft supporter. I do know I could move mail to local folders but would that mean I could only access them from one machine? Thanks.

Asked by P Brixey 4 months ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 3 months ago

Firefox Continually Crashing . . .

Machine: Dell Inspiron 15 5567 CPU: Intel i5-7xxx Op Sys: Ubuntu 24.04.1 Firefox version: Flathub 130.0 For the past 2 weeks Firefox has been repeatedly crashing soon af… (read more)

Machine: Dell Inspiron 15 5567 CPU: Intel i5-7xxx Op Sys: Ubuntu 24.04.1 Firefox version: Flathub 130.0

For the past 2 weeks Firefox has been repeatedly crashing soon after going on to certain sites or trying to apply my 2FA authenticator add-on.

Suddenly there's a screen shudder and a new window opens, inviting me to submit a crash report. See attached image.

I do not believe that this is down to Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade done at end of August.

But it's enough for me to largely go over to Chromium and Firefox Dev Ed.

If Mozilla don't act on this crashing I can see its market being lost fairly fast.

Asked by tamjk 5 months ago

Last reply by paulparker 4 months ago

Cannot stream movies on computer anymore

Today I was no longer able to stream movies on Amazon Prime or Youtube. I watch Amazon movies most nights, watched last night. Tonight I got a message when I tried to con… (read more)

Today I was no longer able to stream movies on Amazon Prime or Youtube. I watch Amazon movies most nights, watched last night. Tonight I got a message when I tried to continue watching a tv series on Amazon that I've watched for weeks. It said I had to update Firefox and told me how, but when I went thru the process Firefox said it was up to date. On Youtube I got an error msg. 99,999 . What is happening?

Asked by Shona Browne 2 months ago

Last reply by James 2 months ago

Bug: Frequent failure of moving bookmarks around within bookmarks menu

Been using Firefox since the 90s and been on Mac since 2000s. This problem has been happening for about a year, throughout three macbooks (my old one, a temp one, and my … (read more)

Been using Firefox since the 90s and been on Mac since 2000s. This problem has been happening for about a year, throughout three macbooks (my old one, a temp one, and my new one) and multiple Firefox updates. I'm always updated and always clear cookies daily.

The failure to move bookmarks I can overcome by rebooting Firefox with a Forced Quit. If I only have to do this every few weeks, then no biggy reinserting all my passwords for all the different sites I use (and no, I don't want to use password managers, I don't trust them)

Today it happened within hours of Force Quitting Firefox, this is too much!!!

The only reason I didn't report this problem earlier is I simply expected an eventual newer version of Firefox to fix this bug.

Firefox 133.0

Normal behaviour: click-drag bookmark within bookmark menu pull-down to position where I want bookmark Failure behaviour: click-drag fails to move bookmark, until I reboot Firefox, then it works again

Asked by TNT666 2 months ago

Last reply by TechHorse 1 month ago

the past 4 producers have told me they cant hear me. its a firefox issue

the past 4 producers have told me they cant hear me on google video chat (https://meet.google.com/) i'm on firefox. it worked fine forever, then no one could hear me an… (read more)

the past 4 producers have told me they cant hear me on google video chat (https://meet.google.com/) i'm on firefox. it worked fine forever, then no one could hear me and i reported it a bunch to google and firefox because it was clearly a firefox issue. someone on their end fixed it. it was working for a while. now its back to people not being able to hear me again when its not a me problem. i keep reporting it and its not being fixed. how do i escalate this? why does this keep having every few months?

zero issues on google chrome browser while video chatting. zero issues on zoom. its firefox's google videochat that people cant hear me. feels like a repeat issue of what happened months ago when the issue wasnt with me. please fix this again

Asked by rachelcenter 5 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 5 months ago

My Thunderbird is suddenly crashing every 5 seconds on my Mac. I tried restarting.

I'm running Sequoia 15.1.1 on an M1 Mac Mini. Never had problems before. TB 128.6 0 esr. As soon as it opens it crashes. I have a lot of unopened files in a pop mailbox… (read more)

I'm running Sequoia 15.1.1 on an M1 Mac Mini. Never had problems before. TB 128.6 0 esr.

As soon as it opens it crashes.

I have a lot of unopened files in a pop mailbox, going to try and remove them.

It seems to still work on my iPhone. Any ideas?

I M get this working. I'm in a panic. Please help.

Asked by eperless 1 month ago

Last reply by Mapenzi 1 month ago

Unable to delete subfolders in Drafts folder

I asked bout this a couple of weeks ago but didn't get a response. Perhaps I asked under the wrong heading. I'm not the sharpest tack in the box when it comes to these th… (read more)

I asked bout this a couple of weeks ago but didn't get a response. Perhaps I asked under the wrong heading. I'm not the sharpest tack in the box when it comes to these things. Over the holidays I prepared many emails to send afterwards. I created sub-folders in my drafts folder. I sent the emails OK, but then I couldn't delete the folders I created in the drafts folder. Not only that but the folder icons in Drafts turned from yellow to purple and they did that in all four of my email accounts, even though my storage of emails was all in one single account. When I right click on the folders I don't get the option to delete and the folders won't allow being dragged to trash. Also one of the folders suddenly disappeared with all of the prepared email in it. Can you help me correct this condition? Thanks.

Asked by martypa 4 weeks ago

Last reply by frisée 2 weeks ago

Firefox and Chrome crash eachother

I've asked about this before but got no help Firefox is my browser of choice. Occasionally, I find in necessary to use Chrome. The vast majority of time, when are bo… (read more)

I've asked about this before but got no help Firefox is my browser of choice. Occasionally, I find in necessary to use Chrome.

The vast majority of time, when are both are active at the same time, one or both crash, like today. Firefox closed abruptly, then the crash report appeared. I have the crash report. Chrome froze up, and had to be shut down in Task Manager.

It only occurs in this scenario. Rarely does Firefox crash otherwise.

Can someone please advise where to go to get help?

Asked by noel_envode 2 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 2 months ago

128.4.3 Not responding and exit by killing client. And extra -1 -2 accounts.

Hi I’m a very grateful Thunderbird user, for at least 10+yrs - and its always worked for me. I have done some pretty regular donations as well, to express my gratitude. … (read more)

Hi I’m a very grateful Thunderbird user, for at least 10+yrs - and its always worked for me. I have done some pretty regular donations as well, to express my gratitude. On Wed my Thunderbird seized up on startup “Not Responding” and after about 5minutes of waiting I killed it with right hand top x. I have one imap and two pop accounts, plus about 7.2G of filed local mail The size on disk of my <profile> is 9.6G My connection to the mail server imap.sonic.net is a DSL ~ 1Mbits For the last two weeks, the writing emails, and saving has been a bit jerky – I assume having I’m Windows 11 latest (i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz ram 16G.) with a C: drive 256G and d: 1000G. I have C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird - and been on the update channel, though not beta. D:\usr\a\n\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<MyProfileName> I copied the profile to a NAS for safe keeping. I ran through https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-mode-thunderbird

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode

and for all same result on startup – seized up. I reinstalled Thunderbird Ver 128.4.3esr (64-bit) – seized up. I created a new profile – and starts ok I started using “thunderbird -p” and choosing profile and “work offline” to not pull in the pop account. I copied in the old profile 10G, deleted contents of imap – still seizing up, So I started judiciously deleting older .sqlite though didn’t keep track initially – and then was able to startup, though sometimes also went into being seized up. I went through local folders – folder properties – repair folder. I still have the orginal 10G that was seizing up - so I could do some debug if useful.

Asked by neilh20-on-ffx 3 months ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 2 months ago

New Tabs don't open sites

As of last week, FF works for a few minutes on startup, but then when you open a new tab and try to go to a site you just get the dancing period, nothing opens. Already o… (read more)

As of last week, FF works for a few minutes on startup, but then when you open a new tab and try to go to a site you just get the dancing period, nothing opens. Already open tabs with sites generally still work, but sometimes crash the tabs after a bit. We've tried starting without extensions, uninstalling and reinstalling FF, changing the profile, logging in the PC (Win 10, up to date) with a different login, running SFC and DISM on the PC, and just about everything else.

Opening the FF console shows this message when the tab just rocks the period:

WindowsJumpLists: Failed to fetch favicon for https://online.adp.com/signin/v1/?APPID=WFNPortal&productId=80e309c3-7085-bae1-e053-3505430b5495&returnURL=https://workforcenow.adp.com/&callingAppId=WFN&TARGET=-SM-https://workforcenow.adp.com/theme/admin.html NS_ERROR_FAILURE: WindowsJumpLists.sys.mjs:257:29

Edge works perfectly (and unfortunately, I'm having to use Edge to enter this ticket.). Other applications don't have any issues. I'm not having this issue on 2 other similar PCs I have that run FF, only this one.

Any ideas of what might be the issue with FF on this PC? Thanks, Alex

Asked by unkiealex 3 months ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 3 months ago

Green video playback after update

I did some googling first and it seems to be an on and off issue mozilla has had with years. Anyway, whenever I play a video (be it youtube, twitter, instagram, even gifs… (read more)

I did some googling first and it seems to be an on and off issue mozilla has had with years. Anyway, whenever I play a video (be it youtube, twitter, instagram, even gifs on twitter actually) the video will often mess up and become a chaotic jumbled garbled up mess of green with junk artifacts over the video. The audio will play fine. It's like watching a scrambled TV station from a 90s bootleg cablebox, but green.

This issue doesn't exist in any of my other browsers.

I'd love to continue supporting Firefox instead of Chrome, but this is a persistent issue across the entire internet, so it's kinda obvious I need to stop using Firefox until this is patched. Thanks.

Asked by Danno Palmer 2 months ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 month ago

OPENING ATTACHED IMAGES

Dear Thunderbird: I have used Thunderbird for years. I click on Attach to add images to my email. To check the attachments, I would double click on each one and it wou… (read more)

Dear Thunderbird:

I have used Thunderbird for years. I click on Attach to add images to my email. To check the attachments, I would double click on each one and it would open in my Microsoft Photo Viewer for Windows. However, now instead of opening the image, I get Adobe Acrobat Reader Home page and no image.

Has something changed in Thunderbird ? Or is there a simple setting I can change with your coaching ?

Thank you for your help.

Pip Spaull

Asked by spaull 1 month ago

Last reply by Matt 1 month ago

Firefox is being blocked by some websites

Firefox is blocked by some websites, saying it is a bot, have you had this happen? You have been blocked. Why? Something about the behaviour of the browser has caught o… (read more)

Firefox is blocked by some websites, saying it is a bot, have you had this happen?


You have been blocked. Why? Something about the behaviour of the browser has caught our attention.

There are various possible explanations for this:

   You are browsing and clicking at a speed much faster than expected of a human being.
   Something is preventing JavaScript from working on your computer.
   There is a robot on the same network (IP XXX.XX.X.XXX) as you.

Having problems accessing the site? ID: 94831524-4e90-ef07-e13c-4a98e17bf644

Asked by guy36 3 months ago

Last reply by rij 3 months ago

Webpage reloads when switching apps

When switching to another app from Firefox and then switching back to firefox, the webpage reloads. This is not a memory issue, I have enough RAM and it happens even if I… (read more)

When switching to another app from Firefox and then switching back to firefox, the webpage reloads. This is not a memory issue, I have enough RAM and it happens even if I only have 1 tab open. This is a major pain when I need to enter a 2FA code and need to swith apps to get the code. Or if I'm watching a YouTube video and get a call, the youtuve page reloads after the call has ended. Please suggest how to fix this.

Asked by prakhar18032000 3 months ago

Last reply by Carlos 1 month ago

Thunderbird. When I boot up the program it gets hung up trying to load the Inbox file and then after about 20 minutes the program crashes and asks for a restart.

I've tried Troubleshooting Mode but it only recommends "Clear Startup Cache" and when I click it to reboot the program Thunderbird stills fails to load the Inbox file and… (read more)

I've tried Troubleshooting Mode but it only recommends "Clear Startup Cache" and when I click it to reboot the program Thunderbird stills fails to load the Inbox file and Troubleshooting Mode again recommends the same "Clear Startup Cache" as a remedy. Not sure what to do to get Inbox file loaded in program. BTW the program does download new emails to the Inbox file but program is unable to load the file. During Thunderbird program restart the message at the bottom left of Thunderbird window is "Summarizing files for Inbox" which after 20 minutes program crashes ans asks for a reboot. Any corrective action recommendations is appreciated.

Thanks, Mike

Asked by mpjdonovan 1 month ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 1 month ago

Thunderbird crashes after recent MS W10 updates

Thunderbird had never crashed before, but lately, after the last 2 Windows 10 updates within the last 2 weeks, it crashes. It's at 128.5.2esr, the next-to-last update. … (read more)

Thunderbird had never crashed before, but lately, after the last 2 Windows 10 updates within the last 2 weeks, it crashes. It's at 128.5.2esr, the next-to-last update.

It always crashes when I choose "About" and it starts downloading the update. It appears that it doesn't get the 1st byte before crashing. It will still say 0 bytes when it crashes.

It also crashes if I leave it running and the screen goes through the screen saver mode and turns black. Twice it crashed while I was using it.

I thought it might have something to do with the fact that I had 4,000 emails in my Inbox (is there a limit?), so I deleted many and moved many to folders. I now have just under 1,000 in my Inbox.

I also tried restarting in Troubleshoot Mode and updating, but it still crashed at 0 bytes downloaded.

Is there a way to manually download the update and apply it? I can't find it on the website.

The next thing I know to do is reinstall. Is there anything I can try before doing that? Would you suggest uninstall first or reinstall over what's here?

Asked by bfrg1513 3 weeks ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 17 hours ago

Thunderbird 128.5.2esr (64 bits)

Hello, I habe been using Thunderbird for many years and I always considered it was a wonderfull software. But it seems that since Thunderbird revisions 128 replaced rev… (read more)

Hello,

I habe been using Thunderbird for many years and I always considered it was a wonderfull software. But it seems that since Thunderbird revisions 128 replaced revisions 115 XXX, this software became less performant and less reliable than before: very (too) often it takes a big time just to open a received e-mail, it is longer and longer to send a new e-mail, even without attached file. Sometimes the software seems locked: nearly all commands are unavailable, in a "grey" state: "the program does not respond ..."

Somtimes, when you run Thunderbitd you see a huge disc activity, as if the software was re-indexing the databases after each launch.

Even if you re-install the software, from scratch, and you re-index all the files the behaviour does not improve.

Theses problems have begun since revision 115 XX was upgraded to 128. We have been told that Thunderbird sofware had been widely "redesigned" but as a result, right now, it is less good than before.

Looking on forums I see that I am not the only one to signal these problems ...

Can you give us some more informations about what is going on with Thunderbird ? It is going to be "stabilized" ? Does this last major evolution of Thunderbird is going to arrive to a more stable state ?

Thank you by advance.

Regards

Asked by daniel.pot 1 month ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 1 month ago

Tab function

I am trying to move one tab from one window to another. It says I should be able to move it just by clicking on the tab and dragging it to the window I want to move it t… (read more)

I am trying to move one tab from one window to another. It says I should be able to move it just by clicking on the tab and dragging it to the window I want to move it to. But, when I try this nothing happens, it won't move.

Want can I do to resolve this?

Thanks

Asked by curt_hoagland 2 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 2 months ago