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August 8

Thunderbird inbox won't show

Lately, Thunderbird (on current OSX) won't show me the contents of my 'main' inbox except by searching. The "Read messages" button, which formerly showed me the list of messages, is now a synonym for the "Get messages" button, i.e., download from the server. So every day now I "Search messages" such that "Age in Days is less than 1".

I hoped that the next update would correct this, but no luck.

Have I misconfigured something? —Tamfang (talk) 00:57, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

The problem went away in a later version of Thunderbird. —Tamfang (talk) 07:21, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

How do I close a window?

I have Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. I clicked on the X in the upper right corner and was asked if I wanted to close all tabs. I said I did. One tab didn't quite close. The content was gone, but the URL remained at the top of the screen, along with a plus sign which gave me a new tab (which doesn't actually do anything once it appearsCorrection: there is a list of favorite sites and it will let me go to one if I click on it), the mimimize and maximize buttons which work, and the same X which now does nothing when I click on it. I can't change the URL because it changes back, and the window doesn't do anything. It just won't go away. When I click on the blue e at the bottom of the screen, there it is along with any other windows I might have open. I can close other windows and have done it by accident since this happened.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Have you tried killing Edge from the Task Manager? If you're not having issues with any other programs, it sounds like you tripped over some bug in Edge. If you have repeated issues with Edge, I would install another browser. --71.110.8.102 (talk) 08:30, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, looks like a one-time glitch, should not happen again if you restart.

How to kill programs: ctrl-alt-del, "task manager". If you can manage to "end task" via the "processes" tab, fine, otherwise, go to "details" (in W10) to find and kill the underlying process. Of course, the latter is a brutal solution; it will lose any unsaved data and the program might complain when you start it again. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 08:37, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I'm not at home but I will be soon. I will not be installing another browser. That's too complicated. But I've had it long enough that I don't think this is a serious problem.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:45, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Task manager never came up. However, this tab seems to be working fine.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:24, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I will not be installing another browser. That's too complicated. - coming from someone who edited 10 years on Wikipedia (nerd!) and has a This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science userbox... Hmm, I should probably report your account as compromised. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 16:06, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

You don't know me very well, do you? Seriously, not only do I have slow Internet, but I can't handle complicated stuff related to computers. My degree didn't do me any good.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:14, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm in the same boat, degree-wise, but how hard is it to install a browser? —Tamfang (talk) 21:23, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

I don't want to find out.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:46, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Somehow the tab went away. I had a bunch of tabs open and they wouldn't close, but somehow they did and I was left with nothing and started over.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:34, 12 August 2016 (UTC)