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I recently had my firefox mobile for android updated apparently, but it is so user unfriendly and not very accessible in the way that the new layout with the dark tabs and small pictures makes it very hard to read which tabs are open and is unfriendly on the eyes. Is there any way I can revert back to the previous version? I really loved the layout and the user friendliness of it and now I am just considering downloading another browser because I am so bummed by this update. Thanks in advance.

последнее обновление поломало поиск на страницах и контекстное меню по правому клику мыши. не работает сочетание Ctrl+F. по правому клику мыши контекстное меню на половину пустое,

Hello,

After today's Thunderbird update for Windows 11, over half of the folders in the local folder are no longer displayed. However, the folders are present in the backup folder on an external hard drive.

What's causing this?

Best regards, Steffen Liebig Bautzen, Saxony, Germany

hi, I love supporting this independent browser - I know its not perfect but it does a great job of doing most things well.

However, and there is a big but. I can be in the middle of an investigation that requires sharing data to a new tab - on opening the tab I'm blocked from going further as Firefox needs to do an update! This is really infuriating. No update can be SO urgent that you stop me using the browser. This is the Microsoft mentality, and its wrong. Can you please investigate NOT forcing users to update their browser during session.

Matt.

Hi All, this question seems to come up on various forums, but I cannot find a definitive answer.

We run the Enterprise version of FF (140.7.0esr (32-bit)), the product installs and includes the scheduled task that checks for updates at a regular interval. This works, but the update only ever seems to be applied once the browser is launched.

According to the documentation there is the following setting:

Software\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox\AppAutoUpdate = 0x1 | 0x0

• If set to true, application updates are installed without user approval within Firefox.
• If set to false, application updates are downloaded but the user can choose when to install the update.

We have a number of users that do not frequently open FF and therefore our reporting shows that they are running an out of date version of the browser.

Has anyone managed to get this auto update mechanism to work without opening the browser? Is it even possible?

Thanks

Every since updating to Thunderbird 147.0.1, I have noticed that every time I start Thunderbird, it creates a directory called "Thunderbird" in my home directory! This didn't happen before the update and I have a '.thunderbird' directory in my home already! I had a search in the settings for the term "directory" but did not find anything that seemed related. But it seems to be caused by some new setting that has become activated with the update.

I am on an Arch GNU/Linux operating system, if any further information is necessary to help debug this, please let me know. Thanks a lot in advance :-).

we can not open the web whastapp with my laptop the message from Mozilla Support, we should updated Mozilla latest version. but the problems my laptop still use windows 8 please help and give me the solution How to update? thanks

Dear helpers,

I want to upgrade the hardware of a friend - and so I moved the homedir of the user to the new system, as I have done every time before in my life. But in this special case Thunderbird will not start with the used profile.

Thunderbird generally starts with e.g. the -P switch. But it will not start the default profile of the user. I tried to go this way concerning the versions 115 -> 128 -> 140 without success. I deleted all lock files, if there were any. I spent a lot of time with e.g. copilot - but it could not help me. I'm at a loss.

Is there any documentation with a kind of step-by-step instructions? Can you give me a hint, please?

Here are the details:

Source: linux mint 20.2 uma Thunderbird 115.18.0esr 11th of december 2024

Destination: linux mint 22.3 zena Thunderbird 140.7.0esr

Thank you in advance for your help.

I have Updates set to "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" - but several times recently Firefox has blocked me from opening new windows with:

"Restart to Keep Using Firefox An update to Firefox started in the background. You'll need to restart to finish the update. Your windows and tabs will be quickly restored, but private ones will not."

Why is Firefox starting to install updates WITHOUT my consent?

And how do I stop Firefox from doing this?

Many months ago I reported this error/bug but it remains unresolved, even though it was supposedly progressed to Mozilla.

I have a desktop PC & a laptop. The problem only occurs on the laptop. I am running T/bird on ESR channel on both machines.

On the laptop, even though the settings are not to update automatically it does, reverting to the release channel. This displays the following bug!

Instead of a "Junk" and a "Spam" fold I get 2 "Spam" folders, but a closer look shows the paths as being correct, what you would expect. The folder will not rename.

Reinstalling the ESR version restores the correct folder names - UNTIL THE NEXT TIME THE PROGRAM AUTO-UPDATES when it shouldn't!

When there is an update available for Thunderbird, I no longer get the prompt window automatically opening to tell me.

I have my Settings, General, Updates set to Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them. (see attached screenshot)

This worked in the past but after an update (can't remember which one), this stopped working.

I have my Update Settings set in Firefox to the exact same and it always automatically opens a prompt window when there is an update due, as does all my other software, so is there something set differently in my Firefox settings compared to my Thunderbird settings?

Is there something in the Firefox about:config settings that is possibly switched on but it is not switched on in Thunderbird about:config settings that is preventing Thunderbird automatically opening an update window?

Is there something different in the registry entries or values in a file?

I know that I can manually select Help, About Thunderbird and the prompt window will show any updates available but we don't always remember to check and that's why the automatic prompt works so well!

I am running Thunderbird Version 147.0.1 (64-bit) currently on the release update channel.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks.