Mozilla releases Thunderbird 24.1 email client
There are not that many good free cross-platform desktop email clients left. If you would have to list them, it is almost certain that you would mention the Thunderbird program, as it fits the bill perfectly.
Mozilla recently decided to move engineering resources away from Thunderbird for use in other projects such as Firefox OS or Mobile. While the announcement has been a sad day for the Thunderbird community, it did not mean the end of development of the program.
The remaining developers and community contributors managed to sneak in a couple of new features in most new releases and made sure at the same time that security and stability fixes were applied as well.
Mozilla announced back in September 2013 that it made the decision to merge the Thunderbird stable channel with the Extended Support Release Channel (ESR). The core reason for the change in release strategy is that Thunderbird stable and ESR releases have been more or less identical ever since Mozilla pulled the development resources from the Thunderbird development team.
Thunderbird 24.1
A new version naming convention had to be found, and the plan was to merge the channels starting with Thunderbird 24.0. The idea aback then was to increment the digit after the second dot, so that the first version after Thunderbird 24.0 would be 24.0.1.
This naming convention seems to have been changed, as Thunderbird 24.1 has just been released. The next versions of Thunderbird will follow the scheme. ESR users will receive an update from Thunderbird 17.0.10 to 24.2 on December 10 when the next version of Thunderbird will be released.
This means that new Thunderbird versions will only increase the digit after the first dot for the time being. Eventually, Mozilla will move Thunderbird from version 24.x to version 31.x to sync the version of the browser again with the Firefox release schedule.
Thunderbird 24.1 features three core issues that have been fixed:
- Fixed a issue when signatures where difficult to read because they were shown in lighter gray.
- Fixed an issue with Auto CC where it may not have worked if the CC and the sending address were identical.
- Fixed several security issues in Thunderbird.
As far as security fixes are concerned, the new version of Thunderbird fixes five critical, 2 high and 2 moderate security vulnerabilities.
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If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
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Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
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Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
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It’s Worked for me, too
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I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
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Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!