Ubuntu
thunderbird package

  1. Bug #1860330
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1860330

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Sean Sosik-Hamor (sciri) wrote :

I see to have found a workaround:

ubuntu@friendly:/usr/bin$ ./thunderbird -allow-downgrade

Users shouldn't need to manually run this. Chatter from the below Web pages says:

mahmacc said:
> The instruction to change to the Thunderbird installation directory and then run the command as ./thunderbird.... is not necessary for Linux users whose paths are set up so the command above will work.)

Matt said:
> Hmm, and who has their path set correctly. My experience is that the more people need help the less likely they are to even know what a path is. That is certainly the case on Windows where very few appear to even have heard of the path. It is still there and works like it always did. But the user base of windows has no idea.

References:

 * https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1276736
 * https://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com/2019/09/i-lost-my-profilemail-on-update-to.html