Forced Update To Thunderbird Nebula

[HikesinRain]

This morning, one of our computers was updated to Thunderbird 128 without our consent.  Not the first time this has happened.  It happened with the "Supernova" change, as well.  We keep our systems on "let us decide to update" at all times, but Mozilla keeps forcing unwanted "updates" onto us.

Is this the new Mozilla?  Forced updates without consent, and no way to go back?  If so, we need to be considering a change.  That won't be easy, since we've been using Mozilla products for a long, long time.  Long enough that I've forgotten how to set up a new program and transfer all our data!  Not looking forward to that.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Caution: external applications can be a source of updates (e.g. antivirus protection software), perhaps this is the case for you

For information purposes
https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3123722
https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14981610#p14981610

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/

[karlt]

When I opened THUNDERBIRD this morning, 128 became the release. OK!, I do have the 'ESR' setting turned on, and I received the introduction to this upgrade over the past weekend. However, within 2 minutes of using this 'NEBULA' release, it became obvious that despite Mozilla's claims how well it was engineered, it's plainly obvious that it's NOT ready for prime time.

So, I posted the 2 major bugs that occurred to me in a post to the Community Forum, and received a link (which ultimately opened this page).  However, what I want is an opportunity to RETURN to Rel. 115.nnn which was almost perfectly stable & met all my e-mailing needs.

Three immediate problems with Nebula:

1)  IF you are working on another e-mail (composing / editing), and the blue notification comes on to alert that a new e-mail has been received .... IF you press the 'X' to close the box, it also closes the other e-mail.

2)  When viewing an e-mail, the address list appear as normal on the left column of the screen.  However, when editing an existing e-mail, the column is replaced by a repetition of ONE addressee.

3)  the 'Thread' setting was reSET to 'ON' so now I will have to go through all my folders to reset it to 'OFF'.

I'm sure that there are many more anomalies / bugs that I've not yet experienced.  Gotta luv upgrades!!!!

P.S.  Using a std. PC running WIN 10 HOME ..... nothing special!  What a SAD day for T-BIRD users!!

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

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@karlt wrote:

However, what I want is an opportunity to RETURN to Rel. 115.nnn

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Thunderbird release notes
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases

If you wish https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.14.0/
Click on, win32 or win64, it depends on your operating system, the Thunderbird that you have installed
Next, download in your language, Thunderbird Setup 115.14.0.exe
And
Take a look at this illustration
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/16jwt7a/%E2%84%B9_how_to_downgrade_from_thunderbird_11...

And other information
Take a look at https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14980452#p14980452 about DisableAppUpdate, if you wish

[karlt]

While reading an e-mail the blue window appeared announcing that a new message arrived in an alternate account.  Immediately, the screen changed to the other account, so that I had to return to the original account, reopen the previous e-mail that I was reading.  Quite frankly, this is pathetically poor programming in my opinion, and despite all the hoopla about how it was so deeply vetted before being released, i's very obvious that it wasn't.  Maybe you should downgraded to 115.nnn until you truly fix these blatant anomalies.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

As far as i'm concerned https://www.youtube.com/embed/QVU8f4AZ-mQ i don't see what the problem is

Of course, you can also send your comments to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird

[karlt]

Well, I thought I explained the situation very accurately.  When the blue notice pops up while reading another e-mail, it switches the screen to the other e-mail account where the new message was received, regardless of the fact that I was still reading the previous e-mail in a different account.  115 never did anything like this.

The only realization that a new e-mail was received, regardless of the current account or a secondary account, the screen did change.  So, that's the issue, and it's just NOT acceptable because it's disruptive & counter-intuitive.

P.S.  I tried to access the BUGZILLA blog but I could not get through.  It asks for a Password ... I have no clue of a password ... I've been communicating with MOZILLA personnel for years either for issues in FIREFOX or THUNDERBIRD.  Overall, it's getting grotesquely complicated to get amswers to legitimate concerns.