{"id":2320,"date":"2010-01-18T20:27:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/01\/18\/thunderbird_and_android_updates"},"modified":"2010-01-18T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:27:35","slug":"thunderbird_and_android_updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/01\/18\/thunderbird_and_android_updates","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird and Android updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thunderbird 3<\/a> has been out for a few weeks now, although I’d been using it on Linux since well back in the beta days. It was actually the standard version of the software on Fedora 11, which I was using on my “big computer” (the Dell I got a year ago) and it’s blazingly fast compared to the old one – if you delete a message, it’s just gone, just like that.<\/p>\n

Only problem was, when I switched to Ubuntu on this machine, it downgraded me to version 2 again, and when I switched again, to openSUSE v11.2, I got upgraded back. And when that happened, Thunderbird 3 seemed broken – I couldn’t adjust the standard font because the entire preferences window appeared to be broken. It just came up as a blank window. I tried downloading the source code and compiling it myself, but the problem persisted.<\/p>\n

I reported it as a bug to Mozilla, and it was eventually suggested that my profile was the problem. I just had to rename the folder containing my old profile, and start Thunderbird (or Shredder, the working title for version 3 which appears when you self-compile). And it worked fine. Clearly the yo-yo upgrading had corrupted my profile, so if anyone’s having problems, that’s the first thing you need to do.<\/p>\n

Also, anyone who’s been following my tweets closely knows that I’ve kept my Android phone which I said I was going to send back last month. What the commenters recommended (basically installing Taskiller, which knocks off programs which hog the processor) did the trick, and I didn’t have to install a custom version of the operating system. Besides, I was too addicted to being able to read my friends’ tweets, moderate my blog comments (using the wp2Go app) and even read the odd website on the go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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