I want to delete my emails locally, not necessarily from the server

Title. Thunderbird is a really cool client but it's pretty slow. I blame that on the thousands upon thousands of emails that my hotmail and gmail each hold. I don't neces… (read more)

Title. Thunderbird is a really cool client but it's pretty slow. I blame that on the thousands upon thousands of emails that my hotmail and gmail each hold. I don't necessarily want to delete these emails, but I have seldom a reason to have any email older than 2 months in my thunderbird client slowing and crashing the program whenever I want to combine inboxes.

To this end I went to "Synchronization & Storage" and told it to "Synchronize the most recent 2 months" but it didn't delete the huge cluster of older emails. The next option is to tell TB to delete these emails in the same menu but as I understand it that would also delete them in the server, which I don't want to do for posteriority.

What do I do?

Asked by Javier González Dávila 10 hours ago

Last reply by Shauna 8 hours ago

Change Firefox filename pattern for Take Screenshots

Firefox can take screenshots of pages or screenshots of custom areas of pages. According to the documentation, when we download the image, the filename should follow the… (read more)

Firefox can take screenshots of pages or screenshots of custom areas of pages.

According to the documentation, when we download the image, the filename should follow the pattern: Screen Shot yyy-mm-dd at hh.mm.ss.png. If I use the :screenshot at the console, the pattern works as documented.

But Firefox is using a different pattern when I choose Take Screenshot from the context menu. The pattern includes the page's title. Example: Screenshot 2024-04-14 at 18-35-16 General ‹ Settings ‹ Geomaster Lda — WordPress.png.

Since the page title can have non common filename characters, I have problems with such filenames. My uploads to MediaWiki fails with such filenames. I know I can report or improve MediaWiki, but my question here is quite simple.

Can I change the Firefox's default pattern for Take Screenshot's downloads?

Asked by Jorge Gustavo Rocha 18 hours ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 10 hours ago

Problem entering to specific websites - Previously was ok.

HI, I have a Mac with El Capitan OS and Firefox 78.15.0esr. Recently I can´t open some websites: ChatGPT, Likendin, TunnelBear, Wester Union, etc. Before everything was… (read more)

HI, I have a Mac with El Capitan OS and Firefox 78.15.0esr. Recently I can´t open some websites: ChatGPT, Likendin, TunnelBear, Wester Union, etc. Before everything was working perfect. Please HELP! Thanks friends :) When I try to open this website, nothing happens, nor an error, sometimes in certain website it keeps retrieving and thats it.

Many thanks,

Asked by cgs260667 4 days ago

Last reply by James 11 hours ago

My client is getting bounceback messages from my email when they try to send me an email.

I am still receiving regular emails from other sources. But for some reason with this particular email or group of emails, they are unable to send to me anymore. I have n… (read more)

I am still receiving regular emails from other sources. But for some reason with this particular email or group of emails, they are unable to send to me anymore. I have no idea why. I have attached the message that my client received when they attempted to send.

Asked by alexandra19 17 hours ago

Last reply by ak.mozilla 11 hours ago

Tabs crashing after update

Help! I updated and now all my tabs are crashing and I'm on a deadline! I tried to rollback but couldn't find the exe. Here are the last 5 crashes: bp-54c2b51c-f703-443e… (read more)

Help! I updated and now all my tabs are crashing and I'm on a deadline! I tried to rollback but couldn't find the exe. Here are the last 5 crashes:

bp-54c2b51c-f703-443e-85b7-243300240417 4/17/2024, 6:09 PM View bp-4df59d95-99ac-4c2f-8d4b-1e3cd0240417 4/17/2024, 6:09 PM View bp-8443dfc4-a3db-4cc9-93cc-90fce0240417 4/17/2024, 6:09 PM View bp-01363280-d496-4ee9-9764-871920240417 4/17/2024, 6:09 PM View bp-179f829e-6946-4479-93de-3af440240417 4/17/2024, 6:09 PM

Asked by sue75 14 hours ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 11 hours ago

Overuse memory and Crashing firefox

Firefox is using very high memory and crashing a lot that causes my whole computer go hanged and I had to force shut down my computer resulting in lose of my work. I have… (read more)

Firefox is using very high memory and crashing a lot that causes my whole computer go hanged and I had to force shut down my computer resulting in lose of my work. I have 16GB of RAM, and Firefox was using 12GB and thats insane.

Asked by Divesh Kumar 12 hours ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 12 hours ago

Trying to install and use J2SE plug-in

I am trying to access Oracle eBS instance but when I login to the page, I get a notification as shown in the image. After installing the plug-in and restarting the brow… (read more)

I am trying to access Oracle eBS instance but when I login to the page, I get a notification as shown in the image.

After installing the plug-in and restarting the browser, when I try to run the application, I get the same notification.

Asked by Vatsala.Saxena 17 hours ago

Last reply by James 14 hours ago

Firefox has done it again

The pinned shortcuts on my newtab page have all disappeared once again. I've gone to about:config > browser.newtabpage.pinned and my shortcuts are all listed. But o… (read more)

The pinned shortcuts on my newtab page have all disappeared once again. I've gone to about:config > browser.newtabpage.pinned and my shortcuts are all listed. But only blank boxes show up on the page. It will not accept a new entry when I try to enter one. It goes back to the blank white box. Why does this keep happening? Can anyone give me a Firefox for Dummies way to fix this?? Thanks!

Email removed for privacy

Asked by raydle1101 5 days ago

Last reply by cor-el 15 hours ago

How can I enable sound on pop-up blocked

Is there a way to enable sounds when the built in pop-up blocker blocks a pop-up or make the banner more noticeable? I often dont realize a pop-up has been blocked and ca… (read more)

Is there a way to enable sounds when the built in pop-up blocker blocks a pop-up or make the banner more noticeable? I often dont realize a pop-up has been blocked and cant figure out why I' not getting the new content

Asked by jpnyc 2 days ago

Last reply by cor-el 16 hours ago

Can't connect to MSN email in Thunderbird

I used to read my MSN email via Thunderbird. Then one day it told me I had to provide the MSN password to connect. I discovered that I couldn't connect to MSN at all. Ha… (read more)

I used to read my MSN email via Thunderbird. Then one day it told me I had to provide the MSN password to connect. I discovered that I couldn't connect to MSN at all. Had to create a new password for Microsoft, and I know what that is but then they have you do a second thing for the MSN email, and I connect to that but can't see what the password is. How do I find my MSN email password so I can give it to Thunderbird? I've tried various methods, but no luck. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Asked by gafagin 18 hours ago

Last reply by david 16 hours ago

YouTube

After years of accessing www.youtube.com with Firefox with no problem, the website is no longer accessible as of yesterday. When I point my browser to that URL, I get a … (read more)

After years of accessing www.youtube.com with Firefox with no problem, the website is no longer accessible as of yesterday. When I point my browser to that URL, I get a screen with greyed out video previews, greyed out titles, greyed out account access and a search window that does not do anything. I can access YouTube just fine with Safari. I've cleared my cache. Please advise.

Jim

Asked by jwhawkins 17 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 17 hours ago

I am on Tbird Beta and it is hopelessly bad. How do I switch to regular (non-Beta) if my hard drive is almost out of space?

I'd like to uninstall Beta and install regular. But I have very little space. I can move all my local folders to a temp disk (that would be about 8 GB). How much space… (read more)

I'd like to uninstall Beta and install regular. But I have very little space. I can move all my local folders to a temp disk (that would be about 8 GB). How much space is needed to install regular Tbird?

Asked by mctangora 19 hours ago

Last reply by david 17 hours ago

extensions.json key

Hello I want to use extension xpi's from a shared external folder over multiple Linux profiles. So i examined the profile folder and found extensions.json. Though i can'… (read more)

Hello

I want to use extension xpi's from a shared external folder over multiple Linux profiles. So i examined the profile folder and found extensions.json. Though i can't find any documentation to it's keys online.

There's "rootURI:" with a "jar:file://path/to/extension.xpi!/", so i tried just replacing the path with the shared one. Though i observed that just makes firefox replace the path with the current one. So i examined further and found the "location:" key with the default value "app-profile". So my guess is, there's other values for other usecases, right?

So, in summary, what i need is:

  • documentation to extensions.json keys or possible values to "location" key.
  • if that isn't intended/doesn't work, how i can achieve my goal otherwise.

And please don't suggest the sync feature, that doesn't work for my usecase.

Asked by dani.priv+moz 21 hours ago

Last reply by cor-el 19 hours ago

Latest version Disables Real Address Addon

Why is it impossible for Thunderbird to have an option to display the real senders email address instead of just the "fake" display and return address? I use an addon to… (read more)

Why is it impossible for Thunderbird to have an option to display the real senders email address instead of just the "fake" display and return address?

I use an addon to add the true address column in version 102, but as usual Mozilla upates disable useful security related updates.

When is Thunderbird going to show this essential true address instead of spending so much time changing the look and feel?

I am stuck with version 102 or another email client until this changes.

Asked by nothimagain 1 day ago

Last reply by sfhowes 19 hours ago

Hello I am not able to highlight and copy on any articles. Most recent update 125.0.1 on Mac.

I have not been able to highlight and copy ~ even prior to the most recent update. Even using control/ does not work. Really hating this. /edit: moved thread from … (read more)

I have not been able to highlight and copy ~ even prior to the most recent update.

Even using control/ does not work.

Really hating this.



/edit: moved thread from Firefox for iOS (for iPhone/iPad) to (desktop) Firefox section as you have macOS.

Asked by lladyon 1 day ago

Last reply by cor-el 19 hours ago

Firefox quit unexpectedly

I can't open firefox. message says "firefox quit unexpectedly" and it won't reload. I tried Force Quit. I tried restarting my computer. I tried completely shutting comput… (read more)

I can't open firefox. message says "firefox quit unexpectedly" and it won't reload. I tried Force Quit. I tried restarting my computer. I tried completely shutting computer down and restarting. It happened very suddenly yesterday.

Asked by ewvanier 1 day ago

Last reply by cor-el 19 hours ago

What and where is my Security Key and how do I touch it?

Please see the attached image. Firefox believes I have a security key. What is a security key? Where do I find it? Why does Firefox think I have one? And why is the… (read more)

Please see the attached image.

Firefox believes I have a security key.

What is a security key? Where do I find it? Why does Firefox think I have one?

And why is there no helpful information to explain this confusing UX?

Asked by kurrent93 2 days ago

Last reply by zeroknight 20 hours ago