Interlude...
Apr. 28th, 2016 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThunderbird upgraded itself to version 45.0 and therupon immediately stopped working.
More accurately, upon clicking on an item in the list of messages, the message failed to appear. Instead, the program informed me the message was "Loading...," and there matters would lie, past the point of reasonable patience.
After a few minutes of anguish with Google, I found the requisite information to restart Thunderbird in Safe Mode (i.e., with addons disabled) and proceeded to do so.
Thus started, T-bird worked.
Sometimes, a successful start clears away what might be called "cyber debris" that keeps an upgraded file from running properly, but this was not the case here with my newly upgraded T-bird. Closing the Safe Mode app and restarting T-bird put me right back where I had started from, but at least now I knew that the problem almost certainly lay with the operation of one of my addons.
Fortunately, I only have four addons, only one of which is "critical" to the way I do email, and I use the quotes because not using that particular addon is not, um, fatal to my use of T-bird, though it would send me scrambling for a way to duplicate the function it provides.
Fortunately again, the addon that, for some reason, keeps T-bird from working properly is one that frankly... I have forgotten why I installed it in the first place.
Still, those are ten minutes that won't come back.
Sigh.
More accurately, upon clicking on an item in the list of messages, the message failed to appear. Instead, the program informed me the message was "Loading...," and there matters would lie, past the point of reasonable patience.
After a few minutes of anguish with Google, I found the requisite information to restart Thunderbird in Safe Mode (i.e., with addons disabled) and proceeded to do so.
Thus started, T-bird worked.
Sometimes, a successful start clears away what might be called "cyber debris" that keeps an upgraded file from running properly, but this was not the case here with my newly upgraded T-bird. Closing the Safe Mode app and restarting T-bird put me right back where I had started from, but at least now I knew that the problem almost certainly lay with the operation of one of my addons.
Fortunately, I only have four addons, only one of which is "critical" to the way I do email, and I use the quotes because not using that particular addon is not, um, fatal to my use of T-bird, though it would send me scrambling for a way to duplicate the function it provides.
Fortunately again, the addon that, for some reason, keeps T-bird from working properly is one that frankly... I have forgotten why I installed it in the first place.
Still, those are ten minutes that won't come back.
Sigh.
