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Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025.

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On 5/28/25 08:11, Wayne wrote:
> On 5/25/25 10:50 AM, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 5/23/25 20:32, Nil wrote:
>>> On 23 May 2025, Nobody <jock@soccer.com> wrote in
>>> alt.comp.software.thunderbird:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2025 15:02:36 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.11.0esr/releaseno
>>>>> tes https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/139.0/releasenotes/ 
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... manually sort folders in folder pane...
>>>
>>> Maybe/hopefully this is the functionality that used to be provided by
>>> the "Manually Sort Folders" add-on that became incompatible a few
>>> versions back. The author has claimed that he submitted it to Mozilla
>>> to be incorporated into the main program, but that they seemed to be
>>> stonewalling him. Maybe it finally happened. It's a feature that I
>>> enjoyed but didn't depend on.
>> 
>> Ditto.
>> 
>> I was recently forced to update from 82 to 138 and was appalled at what 
>> was lost.  
> 
> I'm not aware of any version 82.  There was 78 and 91.

Mea culpa.  It was 68.12.  I was running Firefox 82.
> And has been no programmed forced updates to 138 coming from MZLA. What
> is your OS, and from where did you originally get the older version?

Downloaded from mozilla.  Slackware.  It ran beautifully until 
authentication was denied for older versions.
> I still am, but I am nothing if not resilient.  Heretofore I
>> had no reason to look at the release notes, but I just looked here and 
>> was shocked by the number of problems that were apparently fixed.  I 
>> never saw ANY of those problems in 82, 
> 
> Then there have been plenty of issues and enhancement requests that
> affected other users and not you - why would that be a surprise?

I had no reason to look at info about more recent versions, I had 
decided that since I had lost so many extensions and .css entries I'd 
stop updating.  Ultimately I was forced to, and I'm still not happy.

>> so all must have been generated by the 'improvements' thereafter.
> Not by a long shot.  For example, https://mzl.la/44XdzbD are 359 fixes
> since version 78 that were created prior to version 78.
-- 
Cheers, Bev
    "A complete lack of evidence is the surest sign
     that the conspiracy is working."   -- Tanuki

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Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-05-23 15:02 +0000
  Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-05-23 08:07 -0700
    Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-23 17:36 -0400
    Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-05-23 23:32 -0400
      Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 07:50 -0700
        Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. Wayne <wayne@nospam.com> - 2025-05-28 11:11 -0400
          Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. Wayne <wayne@nospam.com> - 2025-05-28 11:18 -0400
            Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-05-28 18:59 -0700
          Re: Thunderbirds' Release Notes for May 27th, 2025. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-05-28 18:57 -0700
  Thunderbird v139.0.1 Release Notes for 6/2/2025 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-05-31 22:28 +0000
    Re: Thunderbird v139.0.1 Release Notes for 6/2/2025 Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-06-02 11:18 -0700
      Re: Thunderbird v139.0.1 Release Notes for 6/2/2025 "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-06-02 20:34 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird v139.0.1 Release Notes for 6/2/2025 Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-06-02 13:30 -0700
  Updated Thunderbirds' release notes for June 10, 2025! ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2025-06-08 04:47 +0000

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