Thunderbird Upgrade - Should I?

[Sonny Golovine]

Backup your profile folder then do the upgrade. Hopefully nothing will 
go wrong but if it does, your profile will be safe.

On 4/16/12 4:42 PM, Key Schmidt wrote:
> On 16.04.2012 20:11, NoOp wrote:
>> On 04/15/2012 06:25 AM, Graham Watkins wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm getting a nagging message on Thunderbird telling me to upgrade to
>>> the latest version as the one I'm using will soon no longer be
>>> supported.  I've downloaded the tarball for 11.01 from Mozilla but I am
>>> filled with foreboding. Is it safe to install this over the top of my
>>> existing Thunderbird installation or am I likely to trash something
>>> and/or lose all my mail?
>>>
>>> Might it be safer to leave things alone until I decide to upgrade my
>>> entire system?  I'm using Ubuntu 10.4.
>> ...
>>
>> Ubuntu are doing users a disservice by not upgrading Thunderbird:
>> <http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=thunderbird>
>>
>> Note that it is not only the 10.04 LTS that they've not upgraded, but
>> also natty (11.04 - which is still supported until October).
>>
>> Were I you I'd file a bug report and demand an upgrade as Mozilla
>> stopped all support (including security patches) for TB 3.1 this month:
>>
>> <http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2012/01/31/using-thunderbird-3-1-its-time-for-a-change/> 
>>
>> <https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31>
>>
>> TB 3.x isn't even on the 'Extended Support' downloads page:
>> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/all-esr.html>
>> <https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/organizations/index.html>
>>
>> Personally, I've blown out all bits of "Ubuntu Mozilla" (Thunderbird,
>> SeaMonkey, Firefox, Lightning) and only run the tarballs from Mozilla
>> directly. That way I am certain to get all security patches, and
>> updates/upgrades at the same time the rest of the world does.
>>
>> $ locate thunderbird-bin
>> /home/<user>/Thunderbird/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
>> $ locate firefox-bin
>> /home/<user>/FirefoxNightly/firefox/firefox-bin
>> /home/<user>/firefox/firefox/firefox-bin
>> $ locate seamonkey-bin
>> /home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey/seamonkey-bin
>>
>> Read
>> <https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/upgrading-thunderbird-31>
>> - particularly "1. Backup your Thunderbird Data" (you can skip step #2).
>> Extract to a home folder (e.g. 'thunderbird'), point your menu to the
>> thunderbird shell (not the thunderbird-bin - I only used that in the
>> locate example as it's easy to find/display):
>> /home/<user>/Thunderbird/thunderbird/thunderbird
>> and off you go.
>>
>> [The recent debacle with Macintosh not updating their Java when the
>> security update was released in February, is an example of what can
>> happen when package maintainers sit on their thumbs&  spin...]
>>
>>
> ++1
>
> Key
>