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Just what EXACTLY is Disabled in Thunderbird 'Safe Mode'?
Can't fathom this one (!). Scenario: My Thunderbird address book contains the standard 'Personal Address Book' and 'Collected Addresses' plus half a dozen extra designated ones of my own. All of a sudden, on opening, 'Personal Address Book' contents is displayed, but impossible to open all the others (icons showing as normal down the left-hand side). Open Thunderbird in Safe Mode and all works as it should. My understanding is that Safe Mode disables extensions, plug-ins and themes; is there anything else? The only reason I ask is that, although I have no extra themes, I've disabled all extensions and plug-ins (plus my own userChrome for good measure) and returned it to Normal Mode, but the problem persists. I can only assume there is something else in Safe Mode that I'm not aware of, that could be checked/disabled in Normal Mode (?). Maybe relevant: exported a copy of address book to LDIF last night, but problem may have been prior to that as I haven't tried to access personally designated books for a while. Obviously relevant (but don't know the cure): Error Console message on trying to access... gSearchInput is null chrome://messenger/content/addressbook/abCommon.js :confused: Frustrating. Thanks in anticipation. |
Have you tried contacting the Thunderbirds about this? Cough, I mean the Thunderbird support team? I have use Thunderbird for years and never encountered such a problem. Wish I could help.
Support | Mozilla Messaging |
Finally resolved thanks to reply from Mozilla Messaging tonight.
Details below for anyone doing a search here in the future for this problem.... "When you remove the Quick Search box from the address book toolbar, you can no longer select/display any address books but the default. Also, the error console displays "Error: gSearchInput is null Source File:chrome://messenger/content/addressbook/abCommon.js Line: 588" when you try to select the address book. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Address Book 2. Right click toolbar -> Customize 3. Remove Quick Search box 4. Close and reopen address book 5. Select "Collected Address" Actual Results: Selected address book is not displayed, error is logged in error console. Expected Results: Address book should be displayed and there shouldn't be an error." :) |
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