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Thunderbird 140.5.0esr (64-bit) on ubuntu unity 24.04 Desktop

Hi. I'm a long time and happy user of Thunderbird.

I have some suggestions to make it even better IMHO:

1. I would like to see some color added to the Calendar to make it visually more appealing. Right now it is grays and blacks - see attached pic. It would be nice if there were options to change the colors of the top 4 lines.

Currently you can choose a Category Color, but I would like to see the Title of the Event in that color, not just a tiny unobtrusive Bar at the end of the Title.

2. When you Click on an Event, a Screen comes up showing some information for that Event and an 'Edit' button. I don't see the point of this. Why not go directly into the Edit ? Of course for Multiple Occurrence Events, you would still first ask if the Edit is for 'Current' or 'All'.

3. I don't get the 'ESR' & 'Release' business. I have the 'ESR' version which, I believe, means I will only get updates once a year. Why ?

Seems like a hassle to convert to the 'Release' version. I don't think I will bother. Why not just have one version, and provide updates regularly as most other Software does?

I really appreciate this venue which provides the ability to post questions. Last week I got a long time problem resolved as a result.

Thanks for listening. M.....

Hi Thunderbird team,

I recently moved over from Postbox because Thunderbird is known for being stable, powerful, and professionally maintained. I’m more than willing to financially support the project if it means the basics — like Google Calendar integration — work reliably.

I’m assuming this is just a technical issue on my system, so here are the full details.

I’m on macOS Sonoma, running Thunderbird 145.0 (aarch64), and the entire Calendar module appears to be missing.

Symptoms: • When creating a new calendar, only “On my computer” is available • No Google, no CalDAV, no ICS, no network calendar options at all • The calendar wizard never shows Google OAuth • No calendar providers appear in the UI • calendar.provider.* entries are missing in about:config • The profile does not contain an extensions/ directory (so Lightning and the GData/CalDAV providers are not being created or loaded)

What I have tried: 1. Fully removed Thunderbird.app 2. Downloaded the correct aarch64 build from the Mozilla CDN 3. Renamed the existing profile (…default-release → …default-release-old) 4. Started Thunderbird with –ProfileManager to force creation of a new profile 5. Thunderbird shows the “Profile missing” dialog but does not automatically generate a new default-release profile 6. After manually creating a new profile, the Calendar module is still missing 7. No calendar-related files are generated in the new profile either

My goal is simply to add Google Calendar using the built-in provider, but Thunderbird behaves as if Lightning and all calendar providers are missing.

Question: How can I force Thunderbird to regenerate the full Lightning/Calendar provider set inside a new profile? Or: Which specific files or modules must exist for the calendar subsystem to load?

Any help would be appreciated — at the moment Thunderbird cannot create any network calendar at all.

System diagnostics (Calendar providers missing in Thunderbird 145.0 on macOS 14.8.2)

macOS version: macOS Sonoma Version 14.8.2 Build 23J126

Thunderbird version: Thunderbird 145.0 Executable type from the “file” command: Mach-O universal binary: x86_64 + arm64 The correct universal binary is installed.

Profile configuration (from profiles.ini): Profile1: default → Profiles/2a3nceor.default (Default=1) Profile0: default-release → Profiles/gpr8c7hb.default-release Install section shows default-release is locked as the default profile

Problem summary: • Thunderbird reports “Profile missing” • Thunderbird does not auto-create a new default-release profile • Even newly created profiles do not load the calendar subsystem

Calendar-specific issue: • “New Calendar” only shows “On my computer” • No “On the network” option • No Google / CalDAV / ICS • No Google OAuth login flow • Thunderbird behaves as if Lightning is not present

Profile folder contents: The profile does not contain: extensions/ Lightning gdata-provider caldav-provider ics-provider calendar-data/ storage.sdb local.sqlite

prefs.js contains no calendar.* entries. This suggests that the entire calendar subsystem is not being initialized.

Expected behavior: • A new profile should include Lightning + providers • “On the network” → Google / CalDAV / ICS should appear • Provider modules should be created inside the profile directory

Actual behavior: • No calendar subsystem • No providers • No way to add any network calendar

Request: What could prevent Thunderbird 145.0 from generating or loading the Calendar/Lightning subsystem on macOS 14.8.2, even with a completely new profile? Which component might be failing to register?

Hi,

since Thunderbird 145 installed, I can't update my Nextcloud calendars anymore. Neither new calendar entries are created, nor can I delete them, nor can I acknowledge a reminder. - The create dialog simply closes, no error message, but also no calendar entry. - The Delete button when editing a calendar entry just animates it's being pressed. Nothing else happens. - The reminders window does not close. Neither for a single reminder, nor dismissing all reminders does anything except animating the button press.

I (thought a long time about this and then) tried to unsubscribe from the calendars and tried to add them again. Not a good idea: Now TB only shows "Searching your calendars" indefinitely (for hours). This is regardless of whether I add a username for logon or tick the "no credentials needed" box - to me, that seems to indicate TB is not communication at all with Nextcloud.

This all worked fine before the TB 145 update :-(

Using Nextcloud Hub 10 (31.0.10).

Any hints?

Danke & Grüße von nobi

Hi,

I try to subscribe to online calendar (.ics format), for example the calendar of the school of my child: webcal://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/e9d7c3e1627c47dbbb494c04dd439cb6@montessoricollege.nl/90ee10a5ac224fa2af7e51cd8be5a46215938853368348660489/calendar.ics

But no matter what I try Thunderbird always returns there's no calendar in that particular location. When I try to subscribe to the same calendar in Google (online) it works fine and I can see all content.

This is just an example. This problem occurs with virtually all calendars I try to add in Thunderbird.

Has anyone a solution for this problem? Thanks

I'm trying to sync Thunderbird Calendar with iCloud. Every time I enter the password generated by iCloud, Thunderbird indicates that the credentials are incorrect. Any suggestions?

Hi, I was running Thunderbird on windows 10 before I had to do a system reset, so all software has been wiped out from the disk. After reinstalling thunderbird I wanted to recover the previous calendars, so I copied the backed up files within the 'calendar-data' directory to the calendar-data directory in the new install and moved the new files in a directory. (see attached image) Before doing this I had already created some new calendars in the new installation.

Nevertheless, despite the files have been moved and the older ones substituted them, I keep seeing the newly created calendars but NOT the older ones (which are the ones that interest me) and I believe I should not see the newly created ones. Why is this happening? Why is Thunderbird still showing me the new calendas when the files aren't accessible anymore??? Regards

That’s not a new bug for me, I’ve been dealing with this one for a few years new, across multiple PCs and Thunderbird installations: from time to time, some of my appointments disappear from Thunderbird calendar. Forcing a synchronization achieves nothing: the appointments are correctly available on google calendar and are missing from Thunderbird.

From time to time I need to unsubscribe from the google calendar, re-subscribe and for a few days everything is fine. Then appointments start to disappear again… rinse and repeat.

Now, I understand it’s impossible to point out what’s going with so little details, and in fact my question really is: what can I do on my side to identify the root cause of this? Are there error logs I can check or other clues that can help with that?

I have calendars and tasks enabled in Roundcube on an account on a cPanel VPS, and I can create a calendar synced to the CalDAV calendar there, but I can’t sync tasks. When I select the calendar on the Calendar tab in TB, at the bottom of the task pane it says “Please select a calendar that supports tasks. I can create both events and tasks in Roundcube. When I create a calendar in TB there is no point at which I can chose whether to sync events or tasks or both. I’m running 143 on Win11. Please help.

I REALLY LIKE THE THUNDERBIRD EMAIL AND CALENDAR. i HAVE GOOGLE AND GEMINI ON MY CELL PHONE AND REALLY HATE AND IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY DAY OR SO THEY ARE ADDING SOME OTHER "ROAD BLOCK" NOT GOOD FOR A 79 OLD LADY TO HAVE THIS KIND OF STRESS "AS WE SAY "JUST KEEP IT SIMPLE "!! DO I NEED SOME ATTACHMENT TO BLOCK GOOGLE AND GEMINI AND JUST STAY WITH MOZILLA - THUNDERBIRD AND ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT I LOVE BECAUSE THEY JUST WORK AND NOT STRESS ME OUT!! THANKS FOR ANY CLUES OR ASSISTANCE YOU CAN GIVE ME. LINDA

I inadvertently close the Today Pane (side bar on right). Now I can't find a way to reopen it. Also, when it was open there is no value in the 'Due' column, only the task.

Any ideas James

TbSync which was used to synchronize Exchange calendars with Thunderbird calendar is no longer supported by v142. How do I synchronize my Exchange calendar with Thunderbird now?

I am having difficulty with syncing my Google and Thunderbird calendars. Thunderbird V141.0

My requirements are quite simple: I want to create new events in the Home calendar and have them synchronize with my Google calendars. I do not need to do it the other way, I just want to be able to see the Thunderbird events on my Google devices.

I have installed the 'Provider for Google Calendar' add-on and then successfully subscribed to my Google calendars. However, when I add a new event to the Home calendar, it doesn't appear in the Google calendar.

I am clearly doing something wrong, so I wonder if someone can help.

Martin

How can I get back the ability / setting I always had to see the right side 'mini-view' of my monthly calendar? I used to be able to see each day on the right side of my calendar - now it's not showing??? I'm sure it's a simple display setting or option - but I can't find it - please help...

Google calendar provider has stopped working and I can’t import my calendar into Thunderbird. I fill out the Google account email and password, but I got a message saying that it can’t reach the server.

I use Thunderbird as main email client on PC, I also access via iPAD email

On iPAD if I get a Calendar invite (eg Teams) I can scroll to bottom of the invite, and there is an option to add ICS file to Calendar. I click on it and it pushes the invite to Google Calendar, and it inserts the correct appointment.

However on my main device (W11 PC) Thunderbird does not show any ICS file. There is a banner that say "This message contains event information. Enable a Calendar to Handle it" Can it be configured to use Google Calendar as the linked Calendar ? If so, could someone explain to me how to do this.

Yesterday sometime I accidentally deleted my calendar program and it's a killer I need it bad and if I can't get it I need a simple easy to use replacement it's not asking me a hundred questions just because I want to keep somebody's phone number but what I really want to do is try and find the program a little more before I give up where do deleted products go?

Trying to enable calandar on thunderbird. No information how to do it

Trying to sync date and time with windiws 11 date and time. Instructions state "three lines/ preferences" Thet word "preferences: does not appear at all