Thunderbird/Thunderbird8.0SupportIssues

Thunderbird 8.0 issues

Not so minor

(not in order)

1. View | Folders | All in TB8 Beta 1 is not showing POP accounts, only IMAP accounts - this may be a one off, this was due to Tools | Account Settings .... | Server Settings | "Global Inbox "being checked instead of Ïnbox for this server's account" - This indeed appears to have been a one-off
2. Crash using newsgroup after the news-server requested username/password. [bug 702425 ]
3. WINDOWS ONLY: For reasons unclear, some users do a Windows restore aka Windows system recovery back to a point where TB 7 was installed and then the upgrade to TB 8 results in TB8 crashing on startup. WORKAROUND: re-install TB8 using the full TB8 installer. - [bug 691847], [bug 701944], [bug 701875] - 5 Possible GS Topics: [GS1], [GS2], [GS3], [GS4, [GS5] - Looks like this is going to be fixed in TB9 or TB10 by gecko9 or gecko10 for FF9 or FF10

Minor issues or issue fixed in TB 9 or future release

See Thunderbird 9 User Changes Page

(not in order, numbered only for convenience; minor = no dataloss or non dataloss mac and linux problems since only 5% or less of TB users are mac or linux)

1. [Mac] Firefox 8 and up crash with Apple's latest Java updates for OS X 10.6 and 10.7 closing tab/window containing Java applet - Minor issue for TB since who runs Java in TB :-) ? But not so minor issue for FF - [bug 700835] Fixed in TB 9 (and FF 8.0.1 and FF 9)

Add-on and Antivirus Issues

The following is an incomplete list of add-ons and anti-virus programs that have issues in Thunderbird 8. Please add to this list add-ons that have issues and if you find an add-on has been updated and works with Thunderbird, please strike it out using <del></del>

(not in order,numbered for convenience)

Antivirus

1. AVG not working with TB8 topic in GS - UNVERIFIED report
2. Spamfighter 7.3.68 appears to be working with Thunderbird 8 as of November 10, 2011

Daily Support Reports

(selected dates starting the day after release day which was November 8, 2011; can't do this for every day obviously :-) !)

Folder Pane View Switcher Removal

Get Satisfaction reactions:

• in the first week after release approximately 110 replies from people upset at the change; mostly power users
• from July 2009 to June 1 2011, about 200 replies from people confused about which view they were in, how to change views, etc; mostly non power users

Roland's take - it would be great if in a future TB release we could display the current view name and provide a keyboard shortcut to switch views; simply bringing back the old folder pane widget will continue to confuse many users

November 9, 2011

raw data: http://thunderbirdrobot.posterous.com/thunderbird-support-report-from-2011119-to-20 (not in order)

1. Users erroneously led to believe that Lightning is incompatible with TB8 [GS1],[GS2], [GS3], [GS4], [GS5], [GS6] - Possible bug in AMO or AMO caching or outage leading to TB not offering the new version of Lightning. AFAIK Lightning was released at least 4 hours on AMO before Thunderbird 8 was released so this should NOT have happened and should not happen when TB9 is released (assuming Lightning is updated on AMO for TB9 before TB9 is released). Will monitor TB 9 closely for a recurrence of this problem.
2. (from GS) quicktext add-on 0.9.11.1 wasn't auto-bumped to be compatible even though hasn't been updated since august 2011 - again a caching/AMO issue perhaps?
3. (from GS) - enigmail 1.3.3 wasn't approved in time? (submitted October 28, 2011 for approval - approved November 11, 2011)

See Also

• Thunderbird/Support/TB9UserChanges
• Thunderbird/Support/TB10UserChanges
• Thunderbird/Support/TB11UserChanges