Thunderbird on 20.10 is broken

[Bret Busby]

On 28/10/2020, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/10/2020, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>> On 27/10/2020 15:20, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 27/10/2020, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> 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).
>> [...]
>>> The version number is shown as 78.3.2 (64-bit)
>>
>> Thank you. Wow, Mint is so far behind :-)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> I have just checked the Thunderbird version on my UbuntuMATE 16.04.x
> (16.04.6 or 7, I think, completely updated), my primary system, upon
> which I am accessing most of my gmail stuff, including writing most of
> these gmail email messages, and, this Thunderbird version is the same
> as on your Mint 19; 68.10.0, so, I assume that your Mint 19 is related
> to Ubuntu 16.04; four years old, hence, the outdated version number of
> your Thunderbird (and, the Thunderbird on my 16.04.x).
>

I appear to be wrong;

"Linux Mint 19 is based on Ubuntu 18.04"
- https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tara_cinnamon.php

Depending on your circumstances and feelings, you might want to
upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10 - 20.10 appears to be (mostly) the bug fix
point release that 20.04.1 should have been (apart from this
Thunderbird problem).

Thunderbird 2 never seemed to have problems - it seemed to fly okay,
and do its job okay. And, it was that nice, dark green colour.


-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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