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I use Firefox 134.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 24.04.

Some (not all) web sites show up only after a delay of exactly 30 seconds. The attached screenshot shows that this delay is due to DNS resolution. This behavior is reproducible by simply closing Firefox, opening it again and entering the same web site once more. Once this initial delay of 30 seconds for DNS resolving has passed the web site can be browsed normally.

Using Google Chrome, Opera or even the Tor Browser on the same system works without any significant delay. Also a DNS lookup from the console returns data almost immediately.

As the delay is always exactly 30 seconds this looks like some DNS resolver timeout only showing up when using Firefox.

Neither starting Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode nor (as often suggested) disabling IPV6 for DNS by setting network.dns.disableIPv6 to true did help.

Any idea how to fix this 30 seconds delay?

Many thanks for any help, Felix

Hi,

Today I got some problems with thunderbird. At first, when opening the program, it opens a new message that mentions "Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV: It's time to go" The message is not complete and has some drawing background I could initially still look at my mails but then tried to remove that mail and then the rogram crashed. I tried going into the accounts setting to update and that would also lead to crashing. I tried to set the troubleshoot mode off but it would crash before I can click to turn it off.

Any assistance would be great I use windows 11, 64 bits the thunderbird version is 128.5.2esr (32 bits)

Thanks a lot!

Vincent

My software is old. Windows 7. I know it is not supported any longer. Just started having problems loading email. Getting messages saying my Browser is not supported. Have I missed updates for FireFox?

Hello,

I use Screen Time to block sites on my Mac, running Sequoia 15.1.1. For some reason, it recently (within the last 2 weeks or so) stopped blocking sites on Firefox 134.0.2, but not on Safari.

Is this a known issue? Is there a solution?

Thank you for your help.

I am using version 134.0.2 in windows 11 and my tabs stopped showing just now. I can't find an article that tells me how to have the tabs show all the time, my preference. Any thoughts on how I can get the tabs to show up without scrolling over them?

After I download email into my Inbox I typically save attachments to my hard drive for later reference. As I am viewing the email and after I've saved the attachment (the attachment is not open) I right-click on the attachment and delete it. At that time the message immediately disappears and cannot be found in any folder in my download Inbox or in any local folder - not Junk, Trash, Inbox, Archive, Sent or Drafts. This is a random, though frequent, occurrence and I can find no specific pattern to its occurrence. It occurs whether or not the email was Read or Unread. Repairing the folders does not reveal the deleted email(s). Has anyone else experienced this?

i CAN NOT ACCESS VIDEOS ON HATCH ACADEMY. i USED TO HAVE NOT TROUBLE BUT NOW THERE IS NOTHING BUT WHIT SCREEN. tHE PROGRAM PEOPLE KEEP TELLING ME TO USE A DIFFERENT BROWSER BUT I DON'T WANT CHROME OR THE OTHER. PLEASE HELP ME CLEAR THE CACHE OF THE BROWSER???

I couldn't find this in any forum (other than some very old threads that are no longer applicable or relevant), and I couldn't find an extension/add-on that does that either (or rather, I did find one, but it's discontinued and not compatible with current Thunderbird), but I want to store only the plain-text part of multipart messages (text + HTML) that I receive, deleting the HTML part.

The reason for this is that I need to save disk space. I'm a digital hoarder, and I archive every relevant email message I receive (I only don't store spam that escapes through the cracks and reaches me, and such disposable messages as 2FA login codes and the like). I have several sound reasons to do that, but old messages have been useful to me as reference countless times. I have about 86,000 emails stored, sorted into a variety of message folders by topic, correspondent, etc. Some date as far back as 1996, having survived lots of account, email client, and hardware migrations through diligent backups and restores.

This results in a very large disk usage, and I must minimize it, for both space itself and backup time reasons. And the difference in size can be dramatic. Just one newsletter that I'm subscribed to sends me 3-4 messages a day, of which I'll probably keep two, but each full message is about 120–150 kB. Stripped of the HTML (and still totally readable and functional), that drops to just 10–12 kB. Now multiply that difference by the volume in one year.

I'm testing and evaluating Thunderbird to replace my current email client, which is excellent and designed for power users, but also very buggy, they're slow to fix the bugs, and this is getting on my nerves. That's why I'm looking for an alternative, and so far, Thunderbird is doing an excellent job in ticking off the list of features I need (and passed my message import tests from the old mailer with flying colors), except for this one feature, which can be a dealbreaker.

Any suggestions? Thank you very much in advance.

See attached screenshot. It just randomly happens from time to time, and I can't figure out what's causing it. I've used both Chrome and Firefox with the same results. Help!

Recently, I have been encountering an issue with editing and creating events in the Thunderbird calendar. The event window opens minimized to the taskbar and I am unable to restore/move/resize/maximize the window so I am unable to interact at all with the feature. I use this feature regularly and this has only recently become an issue and I think it may have occurred with a recent Thunderbird update. Thunderbird ver. 128.6.0esr (64-bit) Windows 11 Home up to date as of this morning

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu and together with this, I got the last version of Thunderbird, namely the version 128.6.0esr offered by the apt repository. In one of the previous versions, whenever I right-clicked on an e-mail title, in the list of the e-mails. I had the menu option convert to > task / event, which was very useful when I had e-mails with textual invitations to an event, but no clear ics attachment. This right-click option doesn't appear any more. Has it been removed in this version, or have I done something wrong?

Hello,

my Thunderbird account doesn't retrieves my mail correctly. I have four accounts with the provider Mail.de. Since round about three weeks Thunderbird retrieves all these mails just over night. During the day I receive them just sporadically or not at all - even when I try to retrieve them manually. Also Thunderbird will not synchronise my mail accounts on my phone, tablet and notebook. When I log in with my mail provider I have no problems. The mails are there and I can open and read them. But Thunderbird will not retrieve them. I'm able to send mails but they are not copied into the sent folder and/or I get a error message that they could not be saved in the sent folder or not be sent at all. So I'm never sure if they are sent or not. My google mail account has no problem. With that one I can send and receive mails with Thundrbird without problems.

I contacted my mail provider Mail.de but they said, with my accounts is everything allright. So the problem has to be with Thunderbird. The selfdiagnosis of Thunderbird shows no errors.

I hope very much that you are able to help me. I have Thunderbrid since years and I'm very happy with this program. When you need further information for the bug-fix let me know please.

Sincerely