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Does mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser need to be true if you have 1 Yahoo! acct. & 1 Gmail acct.?

User_since_Netscape
User_since_Netscape

The https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo article is ambiguous. Does mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser only need to be set to true if you have 2 accounts from the (Yahoo, AOL, ATT) set? Or if you have any 2 accounts, including, for instance, 1 Yahoo! account and 1 Gmail account?

The https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo article is ambiguous. Does mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser only need to be set to true if you have 2 accounts from the (Yahoo, AOL, ATT) set? Or if you have ''any'' 2 accounts, including, for instance, 1 Yahoo! account and 1 Gmail account?

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Wayne Mery
Wayne Mery
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Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity. It should say "no more than one account from Yahoo, AOL, and ATT.

Does that clarify?

User_since_Netscape
User_since_Netscape Nkolo motuna

I find your use of "no more than one account" there confusing, but it sounds like if one has 1 Gmail account, plus 1 Yahoo! account, it is not necessary to set mailnews.oauth.usePrivateBrowser to true, correct?

Tuna motuna

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