Thunderbird on 20.10 is broken

[Bret Busby]

On 27/10/2020, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 27/10/2020 14:36, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I do not know whether the package maintainer(s) for Thunderbird for
>> Ubuntu, subscribe to this list, but, Thunderbird on UbuntuMATE 20.10
>> does not load, but instead, displays an error message;
>>
>> "
>> XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
>> Location: chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml
>> Line Number 905, Column 3:
>>    <key id="openLightningKey"
>> --^
>> "
>>
>> Thunderbird running on UbuntuMATE 20.04, had not presented this
>> problem.
>
> What is the version of Thunderbird you have installed?
>
> I'm running Thunderbird 68.10.0 under Mint 19 and there is no such file
> as the one mentioned (in /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/messenger) and
> not under ~/.thunderbird either).
>
> Can you send me the file off-list? It's possible they have made an error
> in the file — XHTML does not declare a <key> element type, so as it
> stands the error is correct: it's undefined.
>
> Peter
>


The version number is shown as 78.3.2 (64-bit)


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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