First of, good on the person who came up with the name "Supernova"(for anyone who don't know, a supernova is the collosal explosion of a star that has run out of fuel) fo… (read more)
First of, good on the person who came up with the name "Supernova"(for anyone who don't know, a supernova is the collosal explosion of a star that has run out of fuel) for this update as it is a perfect description of it, a horrid mess.
Ever since the update i keep getting prompts to enter my credentials for all my hotmail/outlook accounts, CONSTANTLY.. At first i thought it was just a one time thing because of the update, but no.. It'll calm down for a while and then the popups come back randomly.
I found no solution that worked in the support forum, and one particular last quip in a comment from a Top 10 contributor actually irritated me a bit even tho the comment wasn't directed at me: "My encouragement is to stay with 115 and work through the transition." Really? When stuff get's so bad that regular non techy people come here for help to downgrade, and that's the response, it's a sign that the people making thunderbird and the community members(As i understand it the community members do this in their own spare time out of the goodness of their hearts, and i do not intend to cast shade and hate on them, the people helping here are amazing) who try to help people on the forum has gotten too out of touch with the average Joe with 0 tech skills at all. Things that seem like simple workarounds or fixes for you, is like arabic writing to a first grader who only knows english, you have gotten out of touch with how truly clueless people are when it comes to anything more than simply accessing and using a program or app normally. If you have to make folders and css files to restore some of the ease of use you had before this update, then the update is catastrophically flawed from the get go. Updates for programs like this that changes things so dramatically, should NEVER go to auto update or release, it's so slow and laggy and buggy atm it would pain me to even call it beta worthy, it feels like the program is in an alpha test period.
Sorry for the rant, now for what i need help with.
I want to go back to the previous version before any of the supernova crap got onto it, from a comment here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1426218 , David | Top 10 Contributor details how to go back to 102. So, i strap in and prepare myself for the looooong time it's going to take for all my emails to download again after doing a full clean install, BUT, i have a problem, WHICH of the !!46!! different 102 versions do i chose? I read that i had to use this archive https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/ to find older versions, but which of the versions do i use? Which was the latest stable 102 build? Unfortunatly that wasn't deemed necessary info, please help, i want to get away from the massive explosion of an update.