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I'm having problems getting Thunderbird to install. I've used it for a number of years and very happy with it but now it's giving me fits. I made 3 donation last year and it almost immediately quit working for me.

We have several windows 11 computers accessing a single Thunderbird profile one-at-a-time. After one of the computers updates Thunderbird with the auto updating, the other computers get an out-of-date with profile message and then we have to download and upgrade to the new version of Thunderbird manually.

It would be very nice if when the out-of-date with profile arises that the user is given the option to update their installation of Thunderbird, i.e., invoke the auto update.

Thanks.

If I have to restart my computers when I am in the middle of working because Firefox won't work unless I do, I will find another browser. And yes, I have it set to only update when the computer is not being used, but obviously that does work. Maybe give me the option to set a time to restart?! Like the middle of the night as opposed to the middle of a working day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really???????????

My C hard drive is almost full. How can I get Firefox to run from the D drive? I tried copying the files there but it would not run. Do I need to edit something in the Registry? I'm using (for as long as I can) Win 10 on a Dell desktop. Latest version of Firefox is installed.

Thanks for any assistance.

Today, when I went onto Vanguard, at the top of page it said my browser is not supported. However, Firefox says it is "up to date." It had already been changed to 115.24.0esr, as my macbook uses 10.13.6 High Sierra. Firefox says I am good and supported until August 1, 2025, but I am still getting the non-support message on the Vanguard site. Who is right?

This latest version of Thunderbird has all sorts of bugs. I can't open or view email, can't save drafts & send messages (get errors: failed to save drafts & send message). I constantly reinstall the app: works fine at 1st; but then the same bugs keep resurfacing. Is there a way to go back to the earlier release version? Thunderbird was working fine before this latest version was installed.

The attached image shows the error message I get when I try to run Thunderbird. This has been the case for several months, and all of the suggestions I've found online have failed to make any difference at all.

It seems this must be a fairly common error with other software, but within Mozilla's help menus I could find only one thread of two messages that addressed it at all, with no solution offered.

I'm running Windows 11, and have had no problems with Thunderbird until this one.

I hope someone can offer a solution that works for me.

Thanks,

Neil Farrell

Your updates and those of Windows 11, keep returning my software to each company's default settings. I have Glaucoma. During one of my surgeries, the lens on my eyes were replaced with artificial ones. Now, I have perfect long-distance vision, but I have difficulty seeing anything closer than 24-18 inches. I bought a 17-inch laptop and adjusted all the visual and light settings so that I can see my screen without reading glasses. When I stand and start walking while wearing my reading glasses, I run into things and fall.

Being able to adjust the size of icons, text in toolbars, text on the screen, etc, has made my life easier and allowed me to continue using my computer. Each one of those visual assists, however, requires a different change to default settings in the software. Recently, an update changed the speed of the cursor causing me to hit inaccurate selections. Now, I have to find settings to change that. I am 76 years old, and I have too many new things that I want to learn, to spend hours after an update resetting my personal changes in the default settings.

I am sending this same message to the MS Windows team.

I tried to use Thunderbird today,.. to find the interface was broken, menus were blank, so no ability to look at anything., and error message inferring there was a menu config issue was all that was shown. I duly removed Thunderbird as a snap install, which took a long time as it seemed to be making a backup to somewhere. I then reinstalled Thunderbird 128.11.0esr (64-bit) on my ubuntu 24.04,.. having setup the isp email credentials,.. all seemed fine,.. I then proceeded to import what I assumed was my old local folders... And this is where things went wrong, as I seem to have lost all my archived 2025 emails,.. I say somewhere,.. as I don't seem to be able to find them, I have used the 'find' command to locate anything with 2025 in the file name,.. but without success. At the moment I have a multi-structured 'local folder' entry, but nothing with 2025 in? I anyone able to shed some light on what I may have done wrong Many tx

(The topic is the closest I could pick from the dropdown.)

After a disaster last October appearing after a macOS update, I have been working to get back to where all is normal. Apple asked me to erase and reinstall macOS. I was using TBird (some struggles) right up to doing the erase. My question:

Is there some data in the backup ups of the profiles that identifies the TBird version that was last using the profile?

This might also help me: is there is some data in the .app files that identifies what version of TBird the Package "file" is for.

Thanks for your help.

pages don't load due to old MAC osx yosemite 10.10.5 downloaded Firefox 115.24.0esr but don't know what to do when wavy arrow from firefox icon to App icon image appearsScreen Shot 2025-06-04 at 02.47.08