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Thunderbird Email Problem After the last update to Ver# 78.4.0 my Thunderbird email software is not performing properly. I believe this occurred on October 28, 2020.

What works: • I have no problem loading Thunderbird • I am receiving emails and the filters I have created are working fine, placing emails in the appropriate places. • The last sent email was on 10/19/20

What is not working: • I cannot access nor open my Addressbook, both Personal and History. • I cannot send emails. The Send button is not activated. • I cannot reply to existing emails. I have clicked on reply, typed the message I wished to add and again, Send is not an option available. I have tried many things on your Support site, as well as other help posts on the Internet but to no avail. I have looked at my Profile and all appears to be fine but Thunderbird does not appear to be looking at it for preparation of outgoing emails. I did try creating a new Addressbook as someone noted and it I did see it in my Profile but I cannot save nor retrieve any email addresses I try to put in it. Help please.

Win7 Thunderbird platform, prob error 80004005 Every time I look for Thundebird help I seem to have to log into Firefox which I don’t have it is so confusing, I have so many pw’s for mazzilla which are rejected I seem to have to make a new one each time I try to login, anyway my prob is for a long time I have been getting “server imap.gmail has disconnected” I have uninstalled all but my main email address and now I get error 80004005, so I check the SMTP settings box which has listed Google Mail-smtp.gmail.com port 465, and Mail-smtp.gmail.com (default) port 465, also my email address followed by smtp.gmail.com port 587 any help to sort this out will be most appreciated, Robert

As the title says, the text wrapping is not working correctly in incoming HTML messages. This results in having to scroll horizontally with almost all HTML formatted messages, before the update maybe 1/10 messages required horizontal scrolling.

I use the vertical view and plain text word wrapping works as expected.

Thanks

Hello! I have been a Thunderbird user for many years now and I absolutely love it. The problem that occurred a few weeks ago is actually the first I have ever encountered, so I'm really hoping someone can help me solve it. I have always had several email accounts set up in Thunderbird. My current ISP is Spectrum (formerly Charter in my area). My primary email accounts are all xxxx@charter.net accounts. I also have a few older email accounts set up from when I had AT&T as my ISP and these accounts are all xxxx@sbcglobal.net accounts. The first thing that happened a few weeks ago was that I stopped receiving emails at any of the xxxx@sbcglobal.net accounts. When I open Thunderbird now, my Charter emails all come in fine but an error message comes up relating to the xxxx@sbcglobal.net accounts (see images). I am able to log in to the web-based email site to get all of these emails with my email addresses and passwords associated with each account, but they simply no longer come in to Thunderbird. That is problem #1. Problem #2 occurs when I try to set up a new Charter email account in Thunderbird. I use the automatic configuration option and the first screen says that the necessary settings have been found, but when I click "Done" I get the error message shown (again, see images). When I attempt to manually configure the account, I compare the settings to my other Charter email accounts that are all sending and receiving emails just fine and cannot for the life of me see any differences. So...I'm stuck. Any help that the membership might be able to offer is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!

I'm using Firefox v79.0.5 on Android 10, and a browser behavior has apparently changed.

Used to be that if I opened a link that was active on a tab, that tab would become current.

Now, when I open a link, it always opens a new tab, so that I have 2 (or more) tabs displaying the same link.

Is there a control/setting I can use to restore the old behavior?

Thanks in advance.

on firefox 78.6esr the taskbar doesn't appear when i mouse down to the bottom of the screen.

googling this provides no solutions. neither does another profile. apparently this problem has been around for several years.

what to do?

I got a new computer and am moving my profile to new computer(W10 to W10). The old profile is 464MB, mostly in Storage/Default 234MB I think this is a lot and want to slim it down. I want to keep bookmarks and have it auto recall previous sites I have visited. Can I keep the bookmarks and auto recall, but delete some of the files? These files are big also, places.sqlite, webappstore.sqlite, favicons.sqlite Thank you very much.

So, I accidentally clicked a link that takes me to a site I have never logged into. Firefox prompts me with 3 userids. One is more or less a throwaway, but two are for sites I want to be secure.

I have disabled the form history in options. I have selected each item and tried either delete or shift-delete. None of these options work.

The site continues to present me with 3 userid options.

I hope this is not a major security threat since I am the only user on this computer and the site is one I have never visited, but it worries me nonetheless that I cannot remove the Firefox suggestions.

It gives me a box saying Thunderbird crashed and I can send report. I did - but I have restarted computer 2x and still nothing. When I opened details, this is what was there. I of course do not understand any of this.

I have to say that this has been the most frustrating issue that I have been unable to find any kind of help with.

I am running W7 on this laptop (I do not know more than that), even W10 on my desktop, both with the most updated version of mozilla.

I have removed the adobe flash player, and now I cannot get any videos to play, like on CNN and other various sites. I just get the spinning wheel of nothing. It seems that only you tube is working, barely.

Am I missing something, is this open html5 crap supposed to just take over and everything will be okay.

Maybe someone, somewhere can post a layman's explanation on what is going on. If there are issues, how to fix them. I don't need anymore information telling me how to remove because it is dead. What I need is what is replacing it, how does it work, and where and what can I do to fix issues.

Searching for help here on this subject is just tedious. I get over 3000 replies, or what ever they are called here, but just nothing on an explanation of what is changed and or how it works, more like doesn't work.

What do I need to do in order to be able to watch/play videos online.

Any help would be very, very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hello.

Flash files stopped being supported on January 12th. I am a user of a site where "mini chat" uses swf files as the sound of a new message. Since firefox does not play these files, is there any option to notify (e.g. beep sound) that a site has tried to play such a file? maybe some kind of addon?

Or is there a way to make swf files work only on this page?

Long time Firefox user here - been on from the start (about 2005), and don't want to switch because I love some features like the Panorama View extension, Context Search extension etc, and it's always been a great browser.

Recently though (not sure if it's just recently, or I've only just noticed), it's so slow. I tried a brand new profile, no extensions, no settings changes, and it's the same. Example loading times:

bbc.co.uk/news Firefox: 14s Edge: 2s chess.com Firefox: 19s Edge: 4s chess.com play vs computer Firefox 38s Edge 2s

https://youtu.be/er9jBysL0vEFirefox vs Edge (YouTube)

So it's not my profile settings or extensions.

BUT, I tried it on a different user profile on the same computer (Switch User from the Windows Start menu), and it's fast!

Why is this, and what do I need to do on my user account to speed Firefox up (keeping my same Firefox profile)?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, I've just updated my Android firefox App and now all my old tabs and links are shown as unsecure with crossed out padlock and do not appear. Nothing else has changed. Using the same WiFi connection on personal home broadband. Please help. Thanks Trev

https://youtu.be/SeS9afnekZw Youtube Freezes when Opening Videos on Firefox. only on Firefox. this is my youtube video. i recorded this to show what it looks like. only thing that bothers me is Youtube is perfectly fine on Chrome, which i can't stand becuase of the volume of memory that Chrome uses.

i erased both of Firefox and Chrome and install only Firefox without any addons. one time i erased cookies and still same problem.

this problem only happenas after first youtube video. only the first youtube video is fine. there's no freezing, lag, latency on the first video.

This is a solution for a problem that has recently arisen. After upgrading to TB 78.6.0, I began to get errors like in the subject line above whereby inbound service worked fine but outbound crashed. After much fiddling about with Win10 security settings (virus, firewall, etc), I noted that wife's separate acct had similar issues (thus, not machine specific) and that outbound service still worked from Comcast's online app (thus, not truly an acct issue).

I finally stumbled on the solution: in TB Outgoing Server settings, I had, for some arcane reason, two smtp.Comcast.net servers listed. The Default one had my actual username listed for username, while the other had my "extended" full username@comcast.net. Apparently, TB was trying to authenticate with the second, full address. When I edited the username and dropped the "@comcast.net," TB works.

Since the same fix worked on my wife's separate acct with the same issue, I presume the latest TB update (78.6.0) must have tightened some security authentication or some similar scenario was implemented at Comcast.

Hi I want to keep just specific cookies I am using the Exceptions option, doesn't help For example: Yahoo Mail Although listed as an exception, I am still asked to log-in works fine with Chrome Thanks

1. I had firefox in a 64bit win7 proff with relatively high specs desktop forever. Last week it started showing update notification every time i restart firefox and I choose to "remind me later" or something like that (I made the settings so that it won't auto install).

2. During that week i did restart firefox and the computer and everything was normal untill yesterday when I did something normal but I rarely do, that is i turned of the computer for more than a minute and then turned it back on. Then firefox started having trouble loading certain webpages. Things like youtube, google maps, google search, bing home page, were flawless, while things like some businesses (i remember craigslist and goodwill) and some famous podcast webpages and my wifi controlled devices struggle (take too long, then message that they were taking too long, but never show up)

3. I first "refreshed" my firefox, then reinstalled it, then when it wasn't fixed deleted the whole thing and tried installing a fresh downloaded version (I think it was 83). The downloaded installer tells me that i already had firefox and if i wish to reinstall it and after that it takes a long time to throw a message at me that starts with ("hmmmm" for "some" reason unknown reason, the installation failed to work) or very similar wording.

4. The only browser left in the computer is the microsoft one that comes with the computer and it does open the modzilla website but refuses to download the installed (obviously) so i have to download it from a windows tablet and transfer it to this computer.

any advice/insight is very much welcome

I'm using Outlook in my iMac Pro running Big Sur 11.1, and when I click a link in an email, two FF windows open, one with my default homepage and the other from the link.

This only happens when FF isn't already open.

I've adjusted the settings to no avail, and then reset FF but the problem remains.

It doesn't do this with other browsers when set as the default, just FF.

I see other posts relating to this issue, but cannot find the solution - if there is one?

Thank you.

I am french speaking and have a french Firefox installation, sorry for bad translation...

In my Firefox I have this option selected : "Verify for the existence of upgrades, but let me decide for the installation".

I had the old version 66.0.5 since may,13 2019 and NEVER wanted to upgrade anymore for various reasons...

Why did the upgrade occurred this morning without my express consent?

This is a violation of my privacy and security, I want my old version back and a way to prevent any new upgrades in the future.

Rej

Hi! More than a month ago, I realised that my firefox nightly version is few months old. It couldn't update itself, everytime I tried to use update function, after restarting browser it didn't udpate and it didn't even restart, just close itself. So I downloaded latest version from mozilla site to update. But now I remembered that moment and checked what version I have. Guess what, it's that version I downloaded back then. And I can't update it still. I don't know what the error is, but I know what it's connected to it. Every time I open firefox I have to open it double. First opening does literally nothing, and I have to open it 2nd time to open it.