Can a package be returned to a previous version

[Bret Busby]

On 4/10/23 22:06, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 4/10/23 19:21, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 23:41, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> As mozzarilla have downgraded and sabotaged Thunderbird to the latest
>>> version 115.3.1 (64-bit) so as to increase fraud, email spoofing and
>>> otherwise malicious email, by concealing senders' email addresses and
>>> recipients' email addresses
>>
>> I've said it before and I'll say it again: turn your paranoia down,
>> Bret. *WAY* down.
>>
>> I like 115 myself, and I went to extra efforts to upgrade from 102 to
>> 115 on all my computers.
>>
>> Without the rhetoric, what is wrong with it?
>>

> The latest version eliminated the display settings, changed the 
> interface, and eliminated the compatibility of the add-on that displayed 
> the email addresses of senders and recipients.
> 
> This shite version is like the comment from an email newsletter from The 
> Register;
> "It looks like you spent hours tuning your settings – shall I reset them 
> for you?"
> except, with this shite version, it is more like
> "Knowing that you must have gone to alot of trouble setting up your 
> software, we, the people responsible for Thunderbird, have successfully 
> sabotaged your work and your computer security..."
> Malware.
> 
> Before this shite version, I could see the email address of senders of 
> messages, and so it was quicker, simpler, and easier, to determine that 
> an email was malignant, and, to set up filters to deal with malignant 
> messages.
> 
> This shite version conceals that, by making the applicable add-on, 
> incompatible.
> 
> I will not be downgrading the other installed versions of Thunderbird, 
> to this shite version 115.3.1 (64-bit), leaving my other systems at the 
> superior version 102.15.1, so as to keep my other systems more secure.
> 
> Why this shite version has to impose a search box at the top of the 
> screen, that cannot be removed, and, appears top have the sole purpose 
> of reducing what is shown underneath, is not explained.
> 
> Now, Thunderbird looks like some Microsoft shite package, designed to be 
> a security threat, apart from its arty-farty interface, instead of the 
> practical and user-friendly interface of the previous version. Welcome 
> to Microsoft! "You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!"
> 
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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