Thunderbird

[Sparky]

Not in the stable repo, I forget about it.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Debian Buster updated to 78, but I thought we had added an extra epoch to the MX versions so they would still be seen as higher...

our epoch "2" is in place but our 78.4.0 is in test.
I'm fully updated and still on 68.12

[karlchen]

Hi, CharlesV.

Yeah... 78x just rolled in on me and broke:
Calendar Tweaks
gContact synch
phoneity icons
Provider for Google calendar, and
XNote++

Checked from inside my running Thunderbird 78.4.0 on the Thunderbird Addons page.

• Calendar Tweaks 8.3 (Feb 2020): no longer compatible.
• gContact Sync 3.1.7 (June 2019): no longer compatible.
• Phoenity Icons 3.0b5 (Oct 2020): installed on Thunderbird 78.4.0 here.
• Provider for Google calendar 78.0.1 (Aug 2020): compatible
• XNote++ 2.3.1 (Aug 2019): no longer compatible

Potential alternatives? - Not sure, because I have never used the now incompatible addons:
+ Open Google Calendar 1.5 (Feb 2020): compatible
+ QNote 0.6.3 (Oct 2020): compatible
Not sure whether all the incompatible addons are needed on Thunderbird 78.4.0 still or whether their goals can be achieved without them.

Hope it helps a bit at least.
Karl

[CharlesV]

Thanks Karl. yup.. been working on all those.

I have now added tbSync and its CalDav addon's which brought my googla calendar and contacts back up . (Dupes with the OLD provider, but easy enough to resolve once I know for sure its all working ;- )

Calendar tweaks and xnote I can live without - Dont see direct replacements yet.

Phoenity Icons isnt working, that is on my list next.

Other than phoenity, my custom CSS, and my Glass Black theme not working properly in preferences (all dark pages!), I believe I am up. All rules good, all folders still all good (21 gb of email !! years and years !) ...

Gonna try to ride it out if I can - looking go so far (knock on wood) ... Would like the improvements of 78... so... onward !

[CharlesV]

Some Notes for anyone interested:

- MUST remove the OLD providers before attempting to load any new services (ie Google providers, xnote, phoenity etc etc. ) Once old addon's have ben removed, then restart TB and can install and use the new addon's.

- Custom CSS is a little different in some areas, but 90% seemed to go right in.

- Qnote looks like a great replacement, however sadly old Xnotes are lost :-(

- Glass Black theme appears to be a mess :-( ( works - but a mess )

[mmikeinsantarosa]

FWIW - I did upgrade a working thunderbird-68.12 in VM to 78.4.0 and nothing was broken but the only extension I'm using is calendar/lightning. - Mike

[MXMateng]

Hi,

am up and running with Thunderbird 78.4.

gContact sync indeed initially seemed to be a deal breaker for me.

But I found CardBook to be a viable alternative, that works just fine for me.

[CharlesV]

FYI .. this morning TB 68 on several of my clients windows machines rolled over into 78.4 ... so no question - Mozilla rolled the update from 68.

[metreo]

You're probably aware there have been several critical vulnerabilities reported recently against Thunderbird and Firefox.

[Sparky]

You're probably aware there have been several critical vulnerabilities reported recently against Thunderbird and Firefox.

Link Please so I can study them?