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AskWoody PlusI’ve been studying this new Supernova, learning all the terms for bars, panes, etc. I’ve click on every thing to see what’s under the Menu tabs, under the 3 dots wherever they are, looked under the hamburger, looked at all of the Setting options, experimented to see what happens when boxes are ticked or not, etc. I’ve also look at some of the helpful links appearing in some of the recent posts about 115 and I am planning to move the Menu Bar to the top and to make the active tab have color. I’d like to venture into using suggested file contents of userChrome.css, too. Figuring out how to use the Calendar is a far-off goal. I tried to set it up in 102, but I couldn’t ever get it to connect to my AT&T/Yahoo calendar, and I’m not yet ready to try it again in 115. That can wait.
There is frequent mention of the TB mail view and I’ve seen it in some 115 screenshots in some posts. But, I have yet to figure out how to get it — there is supposed to be a series of buttons… from left to right, get mail, write a message, address book, previous unread, next unread, reply, reply all, forward, delete, junk, and quick filter. Where/how to you get this TB mail view???
This is what my screen looks like. Can I not get this TB mail view because my TB is set up to access only 1 email account? Or is there something I have to do to get this TB mail view and the series of buttons?
Mozilla touts a “clean and simple” interface for 115, but this is a VERY complicated piece of software, IMHO, maybe getting more complicated as time moves on, and I wouldn’t say that it has a “clean and simple” look. It’s very busy everywhere and not easy to figure out.
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AskWoody PlusMy quote block in the post above at #2591002, attributed to Drcard:)), should have been attributed to @Bakershack in #2590889, i.e., it should read as:
Yes, Microsoft does a pretty good job of numbering when you are first writing the document,
My apologies to @wsdrcard — Drcard:)).
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AskWoody PlusI don’t know how that happened. I thought I had pressed ‘REPLY’ on @Bakershack ‘s post and then highlighted and clicked on ‘QUOTE’ there.
My apologies.
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AskWoody PlusYes, Microsoft does a pretty good job of numbering when you are first writing the document,
I don’t think Word does a good job of numbering at all, even when first writing. Too many times, I can’t get the sub-numbering or the indentation I want to automatically generate as I create more text.
I mostly use the Format Painter instead as I move onward. It’s a lot easier than trying to correct what Word thinks it should be doing or trying to figure out how to get Word to automatically behave as I want it to.
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AskWoody PlusAs noted at the outset of my post you partially quoted, I was referring to my experiences with updating and subsequently modifying an app on Windows 10, not Windows 11, therefore, the experience was exactly as I described in my post….
I understood all of which you have posted here on Sept 30 in #2590629 that is also posted on Sept 26 in #2589879.
I was actually asking for more information about the paragraph that mentions services.msc because I wanted to know how to find it to check a service called ‘Windows Backup’ to see if it is set to Manual.
I’ve since found it by typing ‘services.msc’ in the Taskbar search box (and in the process learned that this is an app or snap-in control file with a GUI similar to gpedit.msc) — by which I can look for services and their settings. Probably basic info to most posters here – but I’m still learning.
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AskWoody PlusDoes Thunderbird have ESRs?? Firefox does, so does Thunderbird, too?
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AskWoody Plusfrom the Mozilla FTP.
Instead of going to the Mozilla FTP, can you go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ and download the latest release? And continue to follow your instructions?
1 user thanked author for this post.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 29, 2023 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Thunderbird 115: Changing font size in the Message Panel #2590483I have always just used my browser.
True. This is a change that I’ve noticed in 115 — you can’t use Thunderbird anymore as a quasi-browser–maybe for security purposes — not even anything in its own domain, except for add-ons.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 28, 2023 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Thunderbird 115: Changing font size in the Message Panel #2590333Yes, as you can see, I already have a tab for a TB add-on TbSync (the 5th tab – the one that says ‘Tb Sync::Add-ons for Thunderbird’), so I know how it works to get a tab that leads to an Addons-and-Themes selection. But in 102, I had a tab that led to https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.9.0/releasenotes.
In 115, I can’t seem to create a tab that will lead to the 115.2.3 release notes (which is at https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.2.3/releasenotes). Even if I try to replace the URL-field-under-the-TBSync tab with the 115 URL, it won’t let me do it because I can’t backspace over it or delete it to do the substitution.
Do you have any idea now I can get a tab for the 115 release notes?
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 28, 2023 at 10:59 am in reply to: Thunderbird 115: Changing font size in the Message Panel #2590261It looks like one or more of your tabs accesses a website (for example, the tab that says ‘Help – Dark’)? If so, how did you manage that?
In 102, I had a tab in the Tab Bar that accessed a website But, it did not carry over to 115. And I see no way in 115 to create a tab like that. Here is an image of the 102 tab. Albeit, it accesses a TB URL, and at the very least, I thought I could have one like it in 115, too. Or maybe, a tab for non-TB URL?
That seems to be one of the 102 features that is missing in 115 — it wasn’t replicated when I updated from 102 to 115, but maybe there’s a way to do it??
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AskWoody PlusiOS / iPadOS 17
wathcOS 10
tvOS 17Final to be released today.
Are we at the end of the road for updates to v16 on devices that are supporting it? I’m at iPadOS 16.7 and would like to stay with 16, rather than upgrading.
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 28, 2023 at 9:05 am in reply to: Thunderbird 115: Changing font size in the Message Panel #2590211Fortunately, I was able to undo the silliness in Thunderbird 115 and make it as good as or better than previous Thunderbird, using a crude userChrome.css stylesheet I wrote over the past couple of days.
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AskWoody PlusThere’s also a service within services.msc that’s called the same thing (Windows Backup) and is set to a manual startup type.
Hi @Bob99,
Where is this? How do I get started in finding this?Is your entire post referring to Windows 10 only, and not to Windows 11?
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AskWoody PlusSeptember 27, 2023 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Thunderbird 115: Changing font size in the Message Panel #2590091Yes, I did that, but it made no difference in the Message Panel on the right side.
It did change the size of the font in the Message List in the center panel. (I don’t use the ‘card’ view for the center panel, so I don’t know about that, but I assume that the font size would change for it, as well).The key to changing the font size in the Message Panel is simply to roll the mouse wheel with the CTRL key depressed. The cursor has to be in the Message Panel itself, not in the Message Panel header.
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