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Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-15 22:15 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-15 15:10 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post None <none@none.none> - 2026-08-15 17:25 -0500
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-08-15 16:32 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 00:41 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-15 22:35 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:47 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 13:31 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-08-16 23:53 +0200
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 13:04 +0200
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 13:35 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 14:52 +0200
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 15:12 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 19:45 +0200
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-17 12:17 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-17 16:10 -0400
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-17 12:12 -0700
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-17 16:50 -0400
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-16 10:13 +0100
Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:55 +0100
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| From | "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-15 22:15 +0100 |
| Subject | Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post |
| Message-ID | <115qkue$3n9t3$1@dont-email.me> |
Is there one? I've looked through the menus, and my copy of support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird, but can't see one - but could have missed it, it's a big document. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Everyone looks sun-kissed and beautiful and as you watch it ["Bondi Rescue"], pale and flabby on your sofa, you find yourself wondering if your life could ever be that exotic. (It couldn't. You're British.) - Russell Howard, in Radio Times, 20-26 April 2013
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| From | Nobody <jock@soccer.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-15 15:10 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <lno18l967esagrvh8pdf6mr1t39o7739fr@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #21786 |
On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote: >Is there one? I've looked through the menus, and my copy of >support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird, but can't >see one - but could have missed it, it's a big document. According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a simple "S"... but I haven't tried it: <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird?redirectslug=keyboard-shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US>
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| From | None <none@none.none> |
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| Date | 2026-08-15 17:25 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <115qp0v$2bqj$1@paganini.bofh.team> |
| In reply to | #21787 |
On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" > <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote: > >>Is there one? . > > According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a > simple "S"... but I haven't tried it: I have-and it works.
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| From | "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-15 16:32 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115qsv4$3pm27$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21788 |
On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote: > On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" >> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote: >> >>> Is there one? . >> >> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a >> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it: > > I have-and it works. > Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message under the star in the column header. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com> NO, not everyone has a smart phone. My wife and I have "dumb cell phones" and a land-line. Neither of us can handle QR codes, reply to text messages, or have any kind of phone-based Internet connections. We have no APS on any phone. We can send and receive photos only through our desktop PCs.
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| From | "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 00:41 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <115qtg3$3ppi3$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21789 |
On 2026/8/16 0:32:49, David E. Ross wrote: > On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote: >> On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote: >>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" >>> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> Is there one? . >>> >>> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a >>> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it: >> >> I have-and it works. >> Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! And yes, it is in that file I have a print of - I just hadn't spotted it. (It's under "tagging and marking", which I suppose makes sense.)> > Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is > easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message > under the star in the column header. > I have my mouse under my left hand :-) (But still often find keyboard things easier, especially when I'm using the keyboard anyway. Everyone's MVs.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf One of my tricks as an armchair futurist is to "predict" things that are already happening and watch people tell me it will never happen. Scott Adams, 2015-3-9
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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-15 22:35 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115ri74$3tuk9$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21790 |
On 8/15/26 16:41, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > On 2026/8/16 0:32:49, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote: >>> On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote: >>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" >>>> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there one? . >>>> >>>> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a >>>> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it: >>> >>> I have-and it works. >>> > Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! And yes, it is > in that file I have a print of - I just hadn't spotted it. (It's under > "tagging and marking", which I suppose makes sense.)> >> Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is >> easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message >> under the star in the column header. >> > I have my mouse under my left hand :-) (But still often find keyboard > things easier, especially when I'm using the keyboard anyway. Everyone's > MVs.) I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). Just starring or tagging isn't good enough. -- Cheers, Bev
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| From | "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 19:47 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <115t0kk$dh1p$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21791 |
On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote: [] > I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). > Just starring or tagging isn't good enough. > By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine
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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 13:31 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115t6nr$fca6$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21795 |
On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
> []
>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs).
>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>
> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I
get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is
undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves
sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just
makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying.
Who even wants such a thing?
--
Cheers, Bev
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
-- Lionel
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| From | Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 23:53 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <6A823158.4040003@backwurst.de> |
| In reply to | #21797 |
The Real Bev wrote: > On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote: >> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote: >> [] >>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). >>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough. >>> >> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For >> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is >> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.) > > Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I > get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is > undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves > sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just > makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels. Bookmarks and Local Folders anyone?
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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115tc8d$fca6$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21798 |
On 8/16/26 14:53, Frank Miller wrote: > The Real Bev wrote: >> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote: >>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote: >>> [] >>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). >>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough. >>>> >>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For >>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is >>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.) >> >> Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I >> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is >> undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves >> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just >> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels. > > Bookmarks and Local Folders anyone? I know about those. Not what I want. I want to keep stuff in the folder it actually belongs in without any danger of losing it when I clean out the kruft and bookmarks don't necessarily keep the history, which is probably why I want to keep THAT tab. Yeahyeahyeah, never satisfied... -- Cheers, Bev ========================================= "Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion."
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| From | "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 13:04 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <neg85oFsr8kU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21797 |
On 2026-08-16 22:31, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>> []
>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs).
>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>
>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>
> Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I
> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is
> undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves
> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just
> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
>
> FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying.
> Who even wants such a thing?
>
Mail can not be protected from deletion because the engine in the back
(imap) does not support that feature, so forget it. Just move or copy
mail elsewhere.
I have never seen FFx tabs disappear, and I have thousands of them. I
use Linux, though.
--
Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.
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| From | Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 13:35 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <negdepFud9sU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21802 |
Carlos E. R. wrote: > I have never seen FFx tabs disappear There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ... If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs (which you don't care about) You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when you restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-(
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| From | "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 14:52 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <negeflFsr8kU2@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21803 |
On 2026-08-17 14:35, Andy Burns wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear
>
> There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ...
>
> If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you
> want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs
> (which you don't care about)
>
> You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when you
> restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-(
>
>
If you close the window and exit, it is your fault. Don't close it and
exit. Before exit, you can recover the window.
--
Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.
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| From | Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 15:12 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <negj3oFncfU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21804 |
Carlos E. R. wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > >> There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ... >> >> If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you >> want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs >> (which you don't care about) >> >> You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when you >> restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-( > > If you close the window and exit, it is your fault. Don't close it and > exit. Before exit, you can recover the window. It's easy enough to do by accident though ...
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| From | "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 19:45 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <negvlrF2diiU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21806 |
On 2026-08-17 16:12, Andy Burns wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>
>>> There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ...
>>>
>>> If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you
>>> want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs
>>> (which you don't care about)
>>>
>>> You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when
>>> you restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-(
>>
>> If you close the window and exit, it is your fault. Don't close it and
>> exit. Before exit, you can recover the window.
> It's easy enough to do by accident though ...
Maybe... depends on your habits. Has not happened to me.
--
Cheers,
Carlos E.R.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.
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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 12:17 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115vmnn$173eg$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21803 |
On 8/17/26 05:35, Andy Burns wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear
>
> There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ...
>
> If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you
> want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs
> (which you don't care about)
>
> You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when you
> restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-(
That happened ONCE and is why I hate the concept of starting a new
window :-( The new accidental window was created behind the REAL window
and I shut the REAL window first :-( When I turn my machine off I close
each window by hand -- I simply don't trust control-backspace to do it
properly. Would the same thing have happened had I not closed the main
window by hand? I'll never know...
--
Cheers, Bev
He's your god. They're your rules. *You* burn in hell!
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 16:10 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <115vps4$19s9h$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21809 |
On Mon, 8/17/2026 3:17 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 8/17/26 05:35, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear
>>
>> There's a way I know of that tabs can disappear ...
>>
>> If you have e.g. one FF window open with hundreds of tabs (which you
>> want to keep) plus a second window open with only a couple of tabs
>> (which you don't care about)
>>
>> You close the window with the hundreds of tabs, then exit FF, when you
>> restart it only remembers the couple of tabs :-(
>
> That happened ONCE and is why I hate the concept of starting a new window :-( The new accidental window was created behind the REAL window and I shut the REAL window first :-( When I turn my machine off I close each window by hand -- I simply don't trust control-backspace to do it properly. Would the same thing have happened had I not closed the main window by hand? I'll never know...
>
If I want a session to "remember" what it was doing,
I kill the Parent Process.
This only works, for softwares that keep session information,
on a continuous basis, and have the intention of picking up where they left off.
On Windows, you use Sysinternals Process Explorer, and a Firefox
process set, looks like this. Now, which one is the parent ? Task
Manager does not have a PPID column, and I don't know exactly how
you tell who parented what process. The indentation is sufficient
for the job in this case.
PID
Firefox 1234 <=== Parent (Task Manager doesn't indent them like this)
Firefox 786
Firefox 3298
Firefox 1989
Firefox 7228
kill -p 1234 # Kill the parent, remember all tabs (session state)
# This is how I "park" a session for later.
If you have Thunderbird 153, it too looks like that. A parent. Some children.
I am unlikely to be doing this to Thunderbird...
On Linux, Linux has a column for the parent of things, the Parent Process ID number.
Notice that the parent of Firefox is INIT, and if INIT dies, there's no OS really.
Even without indentation as a graphical clue, I can figure out what is what.
PPID PID
INIT 1
Firefox 1 1234 <=== Parent of the set
Firefox 1234 786 \
Firefox 1234 3298 \___ We are the children
Firefox 1234 1989 /
Firefox 1234 7228 /
There is more information you can extract/harvest, but that's enough for now.
The Windows Task Manager, is a sad little puppy, and it is getting sadder by
the day. (The low latency kernel has made a joke out of the display!)
Paul
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| From | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 12:12 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <115vmf5$173eg$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21802 |
On 8/17/26 04:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2026-08-16 22:31, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> []
>>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs).
>>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>>
>>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>>
>> Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I
>> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is
>> undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves
>> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just
>> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
>>
>> FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying.
>> Who even wants such a thing?
>
> Mail can not be protected from deletion because the engine in the back
> (imap) does not support that feature, so forget it. Just move or copy
> mail elsewhere.
>
> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear, and I have thousands of them. I
> use Linux, though.
So do I. Slackware 14.2. Don't ask. Probably no more than 50 at a
time, but perhaps a dozen that I NEVER want to close -- and sometimes
they disappear. Anomalies happen. Sometimes xscreensaver doesn't
start. Same with xdaliclock. Sometimes I can't see reCaptchas. I
can't leave TB folders in the 'unread' state; when I leave TB it goes
back to the not-unread state. I put it down to developers considering
only apple and windows and ignoring the way linux does things until
somebody hits them with a cluebat -- and even then they just do a
quick-and-dirty fix because Hey, it's only a few users...
--
Cheers, Bev
He's your god. They're your rules. *You* burn in hell!
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| From | Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> |
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| Date | 2026-08-17 16:50 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <115vs60$1an6r$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #21808 |
On Mon, 8/17/2026 3:12 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 8/17/26 04:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2026-08-16 22:31, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>> []
>>>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>>>
>>>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>>>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>>>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>>>
>>> Messages in TB and tabs in FF. I want to delete a lot of the mail I get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted. Moving it elsewhere is undesirable. For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable. "Pinning" just makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
>>>
>>> FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying. Who even wants such a thing?
>>
>> Mail can not be protected from deletion because the engine in the back
>> (imap) does not support that feature, so forget it. Just move or copy
>> mail elsewhere.
>>
>> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear, and I have thousands of them. I
>> use Linux, though.
>
> So do I. Slackware 14.2. Don't ask. Probably no more than 50 at a time, but perhaps a dozen that I NEVER want to close -- and sometimes they disappear. Anomalies happen. Sometimes xscreensaver doesn't start. Same with xdaliclock. Sometimes I can't see reCaptchas. I can't leave TB folders in the 'unread' state; when I leave TB it goes back to the not-unread state. I put it down to developers considering only apple and windows and ignoring the way linux does things until somebody hits them with a cluebat -- and even then they just do a quick-and-dirty fix because Hey, it's only a few users...
>
Memtest.
No OS is that daft. Check your RAM for problems :-)
If your graphics card is out of support, go back to the
frame buffer driver plus MESA for 3D rendering. It will be
slower, but it is also likely to look normal and start stuff.
If you had an NVidia video card, Nouveau is the unaccelerated driver.
Many OSes install with that in control. The Microsoft equivalent
of such, is the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter driver. Even Microsoft
has two driver levels, unaccelerated (MBDA) and accelerated (NVidia).
When Linux has a serious problem with graphics... there are no graphics.
There is a login prompt and a text session. It's not a half-ways thing.
Either it runs. Or, it drops dead. Now you know the driver didn't load.
Your driver is loaded. Really weird shit is happening.
Memtest.
I'll make a guess. You have DDR2 memory in the computer.
Give us an "inxi -F" output, so we can get some hardware details.
Even knowing the CPU, gives some identification of how old the
design is, and a rough idea of the DRAM era.
Unaccelerated graphics (inxi output)
----------------------
System:
Host: RODAN Kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)
...
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 renderer: NV134
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
...
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.74 GiB used: 1.27 GiB (2.0%) [DDR3, eight sticks]
Processes: 286 Uptime: 2m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.38
Accelerated graphics
----------------------
System:
Host: foxtrot Kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.10 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur)
...
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] driver: nvidia v: 535.274.02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia
resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 535.274.02
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings
gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
...
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.74 GiB used: 1.75 GiB (2.8%)
Processes: 301 Uptime: 2m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.38
Paul
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| From | Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> |
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| Date | 2026-08-16 10:13 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <nedd84FfpjcU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #21790 |
J. P. Gilliver wrote: > Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! Doesn't require thought, just scan through the menu (in this case under Message > Mark) and see if there's a keyboard shortcut for the action you want.
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