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Firefox is forcing me to download a lot of temporary files instead of opening them in their native application, resulting in cluttering up my hard drive and making me unnecessarily having to clean up after the browser.

How can I fix this privacy invading feature?

i need police or FBI AND HELP STOP THE MALICIOUS INVASION OF MY JOB, GPS, IPHONE, ANDROID, AND COMMUNICATIONS NOW THEY'VE REMOVED MY APP STORE AND BANKING APPS

WHO CAN STOP MALICIOUS TECH SUPPORT TRYING TO DESTROY ME FINANCIALLY

THEY'VE INVADED MY CAR AND MY BELONGINGS HAVE BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY VANDALIZED, STOLEN

CANNOT COMPLETE CALLS TO APPLE TECH SUPPORT WHEN THEY CALLED BACK MY TOUCH KEY WOULDN'T FUNCTION BOTH TIMES THEY RETURNED MY CALLS.

!!!!!? NOW WHAT? WHEN IT IS TECH SUPPORT NOW WHAT?!!!!!

LINKING CELL AND LAPTOP WAS BAD ADVICE BY THE WAY.... [email address removed for users privacy and security as this is an open forum]

Now that Thunderbird is no longer developed by Mozilla, and I really want to continue using Thunderbird, Do I need an install of Firefox to make it work ? Can I dump Firefox and continue to use thunderbird?

Some websites are better accessed using Chrome based browsers. (my.bookwhen.com is an example)

New Lenovo Desktop ThinkCentre, 16GB RAM, Three 1TB Drives, Windows 11 Pro 64bit, Firefox 104.02 (I don't remember when exactly the icons disappeared - I have been working offline until today - I unplug from the internet unless I'm using it, to try to keep Microsoft out of my PC as much as possible - I'm really considering going back to Linux.)

Add-On Extension Icons are NOT showing. Complicated, but non-working, answers to this problem provided on the internet more than once over the years!

I need to get to some work items from my OneTab saves and cannot.

HOW can I install an older version over this one? HOW can wait to install new versions until they have been tested? HOW can I switch to only get "long term support" versions?

Thanks, Margaret Fennell

P.S. Is there a way to suggest to DuckDuckGo that they SORT their search results BY DATE the article was written and show the dates in the search results? That seems like a DUH.... to me.

MacOS 11.6.8 Thunderbird 102.2.2

When composing messages I have 2 problems that happen at random on a consistent basis.

1)Thunderbird randomly capitalizes the first letter of a word and adds a space between the first letter and the rest immediately after hitting the spacebar. Example: "problem" becomes "P roblem"

2)If I then hit the backspace key, it will type the word "backspace" most of the time, but not always.

I believe its either a setting somewhere or a corrupted file but I'm open to any suggestions.

My hunch about this is because I had this problem on a windows machine that we migrated Thunderbird's files over from. We didn't think it was Thunderbird's fault at the time because after another unsolicited Windows 10 update the machine was doing all kinds of weird bonkers things that finally made us kick it to the curb metaphorically speaking.

I have just started using Thunderbird (version 91.0.0) and I can't find a way to disable the irritating auto double spacing using the enter key. I have researched online and found lots of various answers to the same question (some years ago). Unfortunately, the processes suggested in the answers do not relate to what I am seeing on my computer. Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Thanks.

I've tried every suggestion of removing "Other Bookmarks" and all failed miserably with this new Firefox, it is ticking me off, why Firefox creates these irritations for its members is beyond me, no wonder its popularity is shrinking. I need a new solution that works for mercy sake, I am at the end of my rope with this issue.

I recently switched to Firefox from Chrome. I imported all the bookmarks and passwords from Chrome into Firefox on Windows.

Next, I installed it on Linux and later on Android. The sync is not working properly that is what I noticed. Basically I have all the data on my Windows PC Firefox. It is not syncing between other devices, that will be my notebook running Linux and my Android Phone.

I read other similar question son the forum and did a Google search as well. I already did re-install a few times to no avail.

Here is the log from "about:sync-log" : https://paste.ee/p/5e57H

How do I fix this?

I am unable to delete my emails on Yahoo through Firefox. The trashcan icons on the left side next to the trash tab are missing. The entire upper toolbar doesn't work (the click all box, the delete icon, etc.). I cannot even delete the emails themselves from inside the email.

 This started about 5 days ago.  The deletion of emails work just fine through chrome.

I have already read all the posts about this subject, but none of them apply to me.

I upgraded just today on my laptop to the current Thunderbird version.

I started adding my most recent email account, got through all the steps .... then it locks up saying it's checking the password. Still waiting, waiting, waiting.

When I couldn't wait any longer, I cancelled it out.

Looking in my accounts I didn't see where this new aborted account was listed anywhere, so I tried again to create a new mail account.

THIS time, instead of it checking for my email ... it now tells me that that email server already exists!

Is this something to do with the upgrade because I can't add an account.

Thanks

I recently had an update to T-Bird. Now, all of my incoming and outgoing emails are in black font. I prefer the blue font which I had prior to the update. I have gone into Account Settings, Settings, and Tools to try and rectify the problem. All of my font settings are set to blue but all emails, incoming and outgoing have the black font. Please help!

Thank you! viggy

I have a very old TB installation, recently updated to 102.x. A single filter rule deletes (sends to trash) certain incoming messages.

Before 10x.x, incoming messages that satisfied this deletion rule did not affect the tb button on the Windows bar. With 10x.x, if say two new messages are send to trash by the filter, the number two appears in the tb icon on the Windows start bar. As though as if I have two new messages.

Is this a bug or a change in design?

Recently it doesn't seem as though Thunderbird Filters are working. I thought that "Run Now" on the Filters Dialogue used to work on the one filter which one had just finished editing. Filters that I modified yesterday have not updated my in-box. I did have a Thunderbird crash yesterday while loading a particularly large filter.

Where do I find the filter log? How do I test it? Is this snafu from a recent Tbird update?

TIA.

Hi, I desperately need help please regarding Thunderbird Email. I factory reset my computer to get rid of a variety of bugs/slowness etc. I downloaded/printed the support info regarding profiles off the mozilla support site. i followed the instructions and saved my profile. there looked to be two profile file folders. i save them on an external drive. Reset my computer. put thunderbird back on, however the new version of Thunderbird doesnt seem to want to migrate my files back. Im really worried that Ive lost my whole history of emails. I have been with Thunderbird for more than 10 years and saved hundreds of emails in various email folders. Ive tried loading one profile folder, the other, then both and all other variations. ive made new profiles and tried to upload my old profiles and nothing works. I did manage to get a couple of my historical email folders to appear, and some sent items from years ago. But 95% of the stuff i still cant upload. Im not very IT savvy, but i believe ive followed the instructions properly. Is there anything else I can try. are my folders saved in the "server" somewhere that i can access? should i try an use an old version of thunderbird? any advice (in laymans terms) would be appreciated very much :) thanks jackie

Taking a look at the screenshot attached below you will see the librewolf browser which is a fork of firefox, blocks system font detection by default. How does librewolf do that? I hope by reading your reply i will be able to achive the same outcome with firefox. I'm also interested on how to block system local time readout/detection with firefox as i have so far not found a solution to this issue. As a privacy focused person i do not see any reason why any website would be interested in the timezone of my operatingsystem. This information is most likely not even necessary for functionality. From my knownledge the android browser named bromite (source: https://www.bromite.org/) does block timezone detection by default, since firefox is a privacy browser i fail to understand why this feature is not included to the settings tab.

PS: I'm not interested to making any suggestions anywhere, i want to modify firefox to block both system font and system timezone detection, any help is welcome...

When Firefox asks if I want to download an update and I agree, soon after that but not right away it stops working - on every new page it says "We need to restart to finish updating" <- This last bit is VERY annoying. Is there a way to keep FF working in such situation? I usually have 3 FF profiles running, about 10-20 tabs each and when it suddenly does this - I can restart them all but when it is suitable for me.

The only solution I can see so far is disabling updates via group policies (which is not well documented, where do i put this policies.json on Fedora? need to google that).

Any other ways to keep updates and FF running until I decide when to restart? Thanks.

Today's 105.0 Firefox update rendered my NYTimes Wordle page unusable -- a big empty [ad?] space has been inserted at the top of page, forcing the game halfway down the page (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html). The PC keyboard is still connected (I can enter letters in the puzzle grid) but the mouse is not connected so I cannot scroll the page, cannot bring the pictorial keyboard into view.

How can I uninstall the 105.0 update?

Thanks, Gail

When I install Thunderbird 102.1.2. (64) on my Windows 10 PC and install a calender (via net) with a link to my Synology DS220j NAS. Thunderbird shows a turning wheel for hours. In the task manager the "inbox" seems not to run. From then on, I get always the turning wheel when I start TB. I could stopp this by deleting the directory "calender-data" in preferencies and delete the Synology-Calender in TB afterwards. I see this behavior on 2 PCs. The Synology Caldav works fine with Outlook and some Androids. Has/had anyone the same issue and a solution how to manage it?