*** WARNING ***
Anyone running Thunderbird 68.x.x , please be aware, automatics upgrades to 78.2.2 have now started.
This is highly likely a mistake by the development team, as the release notes for the latest version 78.2.2 state:
*Thunderbird version 78.2.2 is only offered as direct download fromthunderbird.net https://www.thunderbird.net/and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 68 or earlier.*A future release will provide updates from earlier versions. Automatic updates are available for users already running version 78.0 or higher.
Add-on support: As of version 78.0, Thunderbird only supports MailExtensions. Your favorite add-ons may not have been updated for compatibility.
*** TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES TO THUNDERBIRD 68.x.x if you still want to keep your existing extensions working. ***
Further reading:
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/15/automatic-thunderbird-upgrade-to-version-7...
FF for mobile also broke extensions *again* the other day. Their big "quantum" update 1-2 years ago broke them all. Not sure why they decided to do it again so soon. It's so bad when I went to their extension section they only had a handful of extensions to install! All other ones were not supported in the new version. Including one of my faves ABP.
Not sure why they can't keep their extension API more stable... At least the desktop version hasn't broken them since quantum.
Including one of my faves ABP.
Check out uBlock Origin if you haven't already. It's widely regarded as the best ad block plugin for firefox and chrome. I assume I'm on the latest mobile firefox and ublock is still fully functional.
-- Wyatt Zacharias
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:46 AM Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
FF for mobile also broke extensions *again* the other day. Their big "quantum" update 1-2 years ago broke them all. Not sure why they decided to do it again so soon. It's so bad when I went to their extension section they only had a handful of extensions to install! All other ones were not supported in the new version. Including one of my faves ABP.
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On 2020-09-16 Wyatt Zacharias wrote:
Check out uBlock Origin if you haven't already. It's widely regarded as the best ad block plugin for firefox and chrome. I assume I'm on the latest mobile firefox and ublock is still fully functional.
Yes, that's what I was forced to use. I prefer ABP as uBO does "too much" and I have to scale back a whack of stuff. ABP is more transparent about what its doing, and allows easy regex exclusion of html div ids :-)
I ended up getting so frustrated with the new version 78 (not just because of the missing add-ons, but also reliability issues with my IMAP connections to the server at work) that I reinstalled the previous version...
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/68.12.0/
That led to this issue with the profile...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unable-launch-older-version-profile
... which I was able to work around with the "--allow-downgrade" option...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profile-thunderbird-installat...
After that, it was just a matter of reinstalling my old (pre-upgrade) add-ons that had gotten updated or simply deleted (e.g. Lightning).
I've disabled automatic-updates now, of course!
Gilbert
On 2020-09-15 9:18 p.m., Bradford C. Vokey wrote:
*** WARNING ***
Anyone running Thunderbird 68.x.x , please be aware, automatics upgrades to 78.2.2 have now started.
This is highly likely a mistake by the development team, as the release notes for the latest version 78.2.2 state:
*Thunderbird version 78.2.2 is only offered as direct download fromthunderbird.net https://www.thunderbird.net/and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 68 or earlier.*A future release will provide updates from earlier versions. Automatic updates are available for users already running version 78.0 or higher.
Add-on support: As of version 78.0, Thunderbird only supports MailExtensions. Your favorite add-ons may not have been updated for compatibility.
*** TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATES TO THUNDERBIRD 68.x.x if you still want to keep your existing extensions working. ***
Further reading:
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/15/automatic-thunderbird-upgrade-to-version-7...
-- Bradford C. Vokey
Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group ===
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