In article <ugp8lf$3q3jp$
1@dont-email.me>,
candycanearter07 <
no@thanks.net> wrote:
...
To all: This is just an off-topic warning. Please move any responses
to an appropriate group. Thanks.
Since this newsgroup is about newsreaders and Thunderbird is (can be) a newsreader, then this would be on-topic here.
Note, however, that I don't use Thunderbird for news; only mail, but still,
see my comments below.
Now we resume our regular programming.
$DRIFT OFF
Does anyone know what kind of issues are in TB 115?
It seems to be mostly a case of "fixing things that aren't broken", aka, "Change for change's sake", aka, "The prime directive of software is:
"Change or die".
Though, to be fair, I might hazard a guess that, as is often the case these days, the changes were oriented towards making things better for people
using smartphones; the general theory being that "nobody uses computers anymore; everything is smartphones".
That all said, my main complaint about the new TB has to do with fontsizes.
I use it for email, running on a computer hooked up to a 55" TV across the
room from where I sit, so the type has to be big enough to read from my
chair. In earlier versions, it "just worked". In the new version,
everything is too small (by default). I was able to jack up the font size
in the main display, to the point where it is readable, but it looks funny
(the type is so big that it "overflows" the space allocated for it).
But, the real problem is when you open an email; the type is so small as to
be unreadable. Now, in the earlier version, you could hit Ctrl/+ a few
times and it would be fixed. In the new version, Ctrl/+ doesn't work; you
have to do Alt/V, z, i (which is a pain to type). After you've done Alt/Vzi, then Ctrl/+ works. But Ctrl/+ never works the first time (per email).
Update/workaround: I've since discovered that Ctrl/ScrollWheel works and is easier to do than Alt/Vzi. But still not as convenient as Ctrl/+
And here's another one: Since the "upgrade", it periodically throws an
error trying to poll an old (unused) email address. You then have to
"click away" a few rounds of error message boxes. It never did this in the
old version.
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Nov 4, 2008 - the day when everything went
from being Clinton's fault to being Obama's fault.
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