Downgrade Thunderbird 6 to Thunderbird 5 from PPA

[Basil Chupin]

On 19/08/11 03:45, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 17:38, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 18/08/11 23:13, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Until yesterday I was using Thunderbird 5 from this PPA:
>>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
>>>
>>> Now Thunderbird was upgraded to version 6 and broke an essential
>>> extension.
>> Which "essential extension" has been broken?
>>
>> (Ouch! I am not certain if Al will allow me to post this response :-( . But,
>> irrespective (I'll go to confession this coming weekend, I promise :-( )
>> read the following...at your peril if Al is watching :-) .
>>
>> See my thread, "Add-on not being compatible with latest release of Firefox"
>> posted earlier today (my time).
>>
>> The information there applies equally to Thunderbird.
>>
>> And by this I mean that none of my extensions are now "broken". All working
>> as before (when TB 3.x and later were installed).
>>
> Virtual Identity. The problem is not one of simply bumping the version
> number, but rather real breakage that prevents me from sending mail.
> Not this Gmail, obviously, but my work mail.

I just discovered that I have Virtual Identity installed in TB - but I 
have never used it. After I installed Add-on Compatibility Reporter 
(which is the extension I was referring to above) for Thunderbird I 
think VI now works - but I haven't tried it because I don't even have it 
configured. However, you use it so perhaps you could see if it does work 
after installing ACR.

Also, there are 2 extensions which appear to do what VI does and they 
are compatible with TB #6. These are: Identity Chooser and Correct 
Identity..

BC

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