On 2023-10-06, Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/23 13:45, this is what RonB wrote:
>> On 2023-10-05, Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/5/23 05:10, this is what Mike Scott wrote:
>>>> On 04/10/2023 22:18, Big Al wrote:
>>>>> On 10/4/23 03:35, this is what Mike Scott wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/10/2023 20:43, Big Al wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/3/23 10:45, this is what Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>>>>>> Just a heads-up that the update manager has just appeared with TB 115.3.1 included. So if you don't want it (at
>>>>>>>> least for a while), you'd better exclude it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did 3 hours ago, exclude that is.
>>>>>>> Even though I've got it working okay on windows.  I want to boot a linux VM and see how it works there first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure I see an issue with the new version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, I did flag it in synaptic as locked - but update manager duly ignored that and upgraded TB along with other
>>>>>> components. Seems an oddity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> You say you flagged it, is that the right wording?  Because what I did was "ignore future updates"
>>>>
>>>> Synaptic:
>>>> package | lock version
>>>>
>>>> Came up in red
>>>>
>>>> Still marked in red as 'locked version' after the upgrade, just with the new version.
>>>>
>>>> All that said, I just got on with things: turns out its data file format must have changed (and so I can't just
>>>> downgrade), because I have them shared across multiple machines, and the un-upgraded ones complained suitably. It seems
>>>> to work OK though, and I can't see too much to worry about.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, on the surface it's not bad, minor issues but nothing that hinders operations. I've been able to almost css code
>>> most of my issues away.
>>
>> I like to move the email window up to where there's about three lines
>> avialable for received mail lines. You can't move it up that far with
>> Thunderbird 115. But I'll probably end up updating anyhow. Just not right
>> away.
>>
> I finally updated. I was tired switching systems to work of cleaning 115 up.
> I'm not one to hold back updates anyway.

My dad updated. His only real complaint is that you can't change from 24
hour clock to an am/pm one. I found the fix for that, you have to add a
these two lines to the prefs.js file.

user_pref("intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_medium", "hh:mm:ss a");
user_pref("intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short", "hh:mm a");

I consider that a bug in Thunderbird (for Linux at least), as it's supposed
to be changeable in Settings under languages, but it isn't.

I'm going to hold off updating for a while. I've got one computer to
experiment with.

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On 10/6/23 04:16, this is what RonB wrote:
> On 2023-10-06, Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 10/5/23 13:45, this is what RonB wrote:
>>> On 2023-10-05, Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>> On 10/5/23 05:10, this is what Mike Scott wrote:
>>>>> On 04/10/2023 22:18, Big Al wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/4/23 03:35, this is what Mike Scott wrote:
>>>>>>> On 03/10/2023 20:43, Big Al wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 10/3/23 10:45, this is what Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Just a heads-up that the update manager has just appeared with TB 115.3.1 included. So if you don't want it (at
>>>>>>>>> least for a while), you'd better exclude it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Did 3 hours ago, exclude that is.
>>>>>>>> Even though I've got it working okay on windows.  I want to boot a linux VM and see how it works there first.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not sure I see an issue with the new version.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, I did flag it in synaptic as locked - but update manager duly ignored that and upgraded TB along with other
>>>>>>> components. Seems an oddity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You say you flagged it, is that the right wording?  Because what I did was "ignore future updates"
>>>>>
>>>>> Synaptic:
>>>>> package | lock version
>>>>>
>>>>> Came up in red
>>>>>
>>>>> Still marked in red as 'locked version' after the upgrade, just with the new version.
>>>>>
>>>>> All that said, I just got on with things: turns out its data file format must have changed (and so I can't just
>>>>> downgrade), because I have them shared across multiple machines, and the un-upgraded ones complained suitably. It seems
>>>>> to work OK though, and I can't see too much to worry about.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, on the surface it's not bad, minor issues but nothing that hinders operations. I've been able to almost css code
>>>> most of my issues away.
>>>
>>> I like to move the email window up to where there's about three lines
>>> avialable for received mail lines. You can't move it up that far with
>>> Thunderbird 115. But I'll probably end up updating anyhow. Just not right
>>> away.
>>>
>> I finally updated. I was tired switching systems to work of cleaning 115 up.
>> I'm not one to hold back updates anyway.
>
> My dad updated. His only real complaint is that you can't change from 24
> hour clock to an am/pm one. I found the fix for that, you have to add a
> these two lines to the prefs.js file.
>
> user_pref("intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_medium", "hh:mm:ss a");
> user_pref("intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short", "hh:mm a");
>
> I consider that a bug in Thunderbird (for Linux at least), as it's supposed
> to be changeable in Settings under languages, but it isn't.
>
> I'm going to hold off updating for a while. I've got one computer to
> experiment with.
>
Thanks. That will help a lot.
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