Thunderbird/Thunderbird17.0SupportIssues
- TB 17 was released on Tuesday November 20, 2012
Thunderbird 17.0 issues
Please add any issues to this page using the tagging convention from the TB17 Support Day Etherpad.
Not so minor
(not in order)
- bug 816028 - LIST (SUBSCRIBED) command to Zimbra server with shared folders causes crash in Zimbra and results in disconnection from server - affects all Mozilla employees since Mozilla is one of the many users of Zimbra!
- bug 645771 and bug 806090 - When composing a plaintext email in a narrower window, when line wrapping a paragraph, Thunderbird appears to be erroneously deleting spaces at end of line which results in sender receiving an email with spaces missing. Note that bug 645771 is 1 year old and bug 806090 dates back to Thunderbird 16 so this is probably NOT a TB 17 specific issue (brought to my attention by Cheng Wang of the SUMO team).
- bug 801400 - Font size change/increase Thunderbird crashes @ _chkstk
- bug 814414 - Menu entries for chat still shown in AppMenu when mail.chat.enabled set to false - Looks like this will be fixed in TB17.0.1 to be released on January 8, 2013
- bug 814785 - Top bar of tab bar is white for 0.5 seconds when using Windows 8 High Contrast White Theme
- bug 812638 - Thunderbird is inserting random and incorrect tags in the middle of words throughout my email message - This manifests itself as broken spellcheck.
- bug 814630 - Thunderbird 17.0 closes all windows if multiple are opened - WORKAROUND - Alt F4 on Windows to close all but one of the message windows - not sure if this is related to the next bug, i.e. bug 805185
- bug 805185 - Multiple Message Windows on Windows XP and 7; not sure this is a real bug since there are no steps to reproduce it consistently, [GS] - WORKAROUND- try Thunderbird safe mode and if that doesn't work delete session.json
- Thunderbird theme that ships with Thunderbird 17 is fine on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Vista, however Thunderbird 17 work to add the Thunderbird Menu Button broke some third party themes such as: Classic TB2 theme, Office Black, Phoenity
- Theme related bugs in Windows XP:
- Titlebar is same colour as background and is therefore illegible: screenshot:
- Titlebar is same colour as background and is therefore illegible: screenshot:
bug 813638 - Andy Townsend claims this bug is present in Windows 7 64 bit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=813638#c4 However I don't see it in Windows 8 64 bit so I am going to assume Andy is mistaken and it's XP only - Workaround: set mail.tabs.drawInTitlebar to false - UPDATE 11 December 2012 - Looks like a fix for this will be in Thunderbird 17.0.1 to be released on January 8, 2013.
Add-ons
The following is an incomplete list of add-ons that have issues in Thunderbird 17. Please add to this list add-ons that have issues and if you find an add-on has been updated and works with Thunderbird, please strike it out using <del></del> (not in order,numbered for convenience)
- Lightning 1.9 requires Provider for Google Calendar to also be upgraded. Google Calendar needs to upgraded to version 0.18
- bug 785370: QuickText 0.9.11.3 crashes Thunderbird so we blocked QuickText 0.9.11.3 and lower in bug 813954 - WORKAROUND install QuickText 0.9.11.5 from AMO.
WORKAROUND until 0.9.11.4 is approved on AMO - download 0.9.11.4 or higher (current version as of this writing is 0.9.11.5) from the add-on author's website
Tue November 20, 2012
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Wed November 21, 2012
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Thu November 22, 2012
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