I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird
3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the
extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way
of sabotaging users of Thunderbird. When I try to check on addons it
takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. There is nothing
there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a
version of Thunderbird.
There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had
and the new 3.1a1PRE. Maybe I missed something along the way, but
currently I can not find a version somewhere between the two in the
sources. As far as I am aware, I don't use any development sources in
the repositories.
Suggestions???
Thank you!

Tom

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On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:18:28 pm Tom Bell wrote:
> I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird
> 3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the
> extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way
> of sabotaging users of Thunderbird.
That's a bit far-fetched, to say the least.

If I recall , a number of Thunderbird's 2.0 extensions don't yet work with 3.0
stable, let alone the very alpha 3.1 you seem to have.

> When I try to check on addons it
> takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. There is nothing
> there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a
> version of Thunderbird.
Even the development version of Kubuntu uses Thunderbird 2.0, so how an early
development version got into your package list can only be from something you
added, perhaps some external repository or PPA archive.

> There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had
> and the new 3.1a1PRE.
The 3.0 final would be that middle ground, but you would still need to add a
ppa repo to get that, or manually install it.

> Maybe I missed something along the way, but
> currently I can not find a version somewhere between the two in the
> sources. As far as I am aware, I don't use any development sources in
> the repositories.

You must have some repository added that contains this. If you remove this
entry, you should be able to uninstall 3.1, and at least get back to 2.0. You
also might want to see if there is a 3.0 or 2.0 version listed as well (before
removing the reoo) as quite Thunderbird (and Firefox) packages are designed to
run alongside the older versions for testing purposes

> Suggestions???
> Thank you!
>
> Tom
>

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Clay Weber wrote:
> On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:18:28 pm Tom Bell wrote:
>
>> I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird
>> 3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the
>> extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way
>> of sabotaging users of Thunderbird.
>>
> That's a bit far-fetched, to say the least.
>
> If I recall , a number of Thunderbird's 2.0 extensions don't yet work with 3.0
> stable, let alone the very alpha 3.1 you seem to have.
>
>
>> When I try to check on addons it
>> takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. There is nothing
>> there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a
>> version of Thunderbird.
>>
> Even the development version of Kubuntu uses Thunderbird 2.0, so how an early
> development version got into your package list can only be from something you
> added, perhaps some external repository or PPA archive.
>
>
>> There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had
>> and the new 3.1a1PRE.
>>
> The 3.0 final would be that middle ground, but you would still need to add a
> ppa repo to get that, or manually install it.
>
>
>> Maybe I missed something along the way, but
>> currently I can not find a version somewhere between the two in the
>> sources. As far as I am aware, I don't use any development sources in
>> the repositories.
>>
>
> You must have some repository added that contains this. If you remove this
> entry, you should be able to uninstall 3.1, and at least get back to 2.0. You
> also might want to see if there is a 3.0 or 2.0 version listed as well (before
> removing the reoo) as quite Thunderbird (and Firefox) packages are designed to
> run alongside the older versions for testing purposes
>
>
>> Suggestions???
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
>
Yes, thanks. I just uninstalled it as the problem is ongoing in the
development. I will have a look at my repository settings.
Thanks again!

Tom

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I am using Thunderbird 3.0.1 on Windows 7 on my other Machine and i can't install addons even in windows, so i think that this problem has something to do with Thunderbird.


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Tom Bell <cbell44@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

*I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird

3.1.whatever. *It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the

extensions for Thunderbird work with it. *I am curious if this KDE's way

of sabotaging users of Thunderbird. *When I try to check on addons it

takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. *There is nothing

there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a

version of Thunderbird.

There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had

and the new 3.1a1PRE. *Maybe I missed something along the way, but

currently I can not find a version somewhere between the two in the

sources. *As far as I am aware, I don't use any development sources in

the repositories.

Suggestions???

Thank you!



Tom



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On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:41:06 -0000, Rezvi <sayyed.rezai@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am using Thunderbird 3.0.1 on Windows 7 on my other Machine and i can't
> install addons even in windows, so i think that this problem has
> something
> to do with Thunderbird.
>
No, the problem is with the addons. They haven’t been updated for 3.X.X.
If you look on the home pages for them you may find a beta version to try.

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On 07/02/10 05:18, Tom Bell wrote:
> I checked the KPackageKit program and upgraded to Thunderbird
> 3.1.whatever. It is shown as Shredder 3.1a1PRE and none of the
> extensions for Thunderbird work with it. I am curious if this KDE's way
> of sabotaging users of Thunderbird. When I try to check on addons it
> takes me to the normal Thunderbird page for addons. There is nothing
> there that is compatible with this version of Thunderbird if it is a
> version of Thunderbird.
> There doesn't seem to be a middle ground between the 2.0 version I had
> and the new 3.1a1PRE. Maybe I missed something along the way, but
> currently I can not find a version somewhere between the two in the
> sources. As far as I am aware, I don't use any development sources in
> the repositories.
> Suggestions???
> Thank you!
>
> Tom
>

hi, i compile and install thunderbird from source every 2 weeks for
testing, currently replying to this email from:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100122
Shredder/3.2a1pre

the name shredder is just mozilla's way of naming pure development
versions of products. they call this thunderbird "shredder", they call
firefox "minefield", etc...

KDE has nothing to do with this, this is all mozilla, you must have some
development repository enabled to get this version.

regarding addons, most have no yet migrated to 3.0, and those who did,
are compatible with 3.0, not 3.1.
there are ways of disabling compatibility checks, using the config
editor. i won't go into any details, as needless to say, a copy/paste
without understanding, can result in nasty results to other users, but
here's the link of how to do it if interested:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility

thunderbird3 is not in ubuntu repositories, hence the lack of middle
version, but if you have some development repo, that where you got it
from. you can use:
apt-cache show packagename
and get a hint of where it came from.

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