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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05-Jul-19 11:21 PM, Richard Marti
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 05.07.2019 15:04, Nomis101 🐝 wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Am 05.07.19 um 10:09 schrieb Mark Banner:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I would just like to point out that whilst "you" personally (not just talking about you, but those responding here in this manner) haven't seen any issues, that doesn't mean to say there aren't.
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Sure, that's undoubtedly true. But if I search the web for "thunderbird downgrade issue", I only find support questions or HowTo's about how to downgrade Thunderbird.
So, downgrading Thunderbird seems a thing people are doing, mostly without issues.
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Maybe because, if they have an issue, they don't blame the downgrade but
the newer version.
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We know they are downgrading. Usually because the new version
caused an issue for them. Sometime that issue does go away, because
it was an add-on incompatibility for instance, sometime it does not.
corruption cause by the upgrade process perhaps. or even issues
cause by aborted updates because there is no cancel when we say your
add-ons are not compatible. <br>
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There is nothing to be gained having a lengthy discussion about what
issues are caused by downgrading. Users do it. ALL THE TIME. They
expect to be able to do it as a matter of course. You can role back
your whole operating system, and users do that routinely to get
back to older versions of Thunderbird all the time as well. This
later usually ends up in a support call.<br>
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Following updates, perhaps the most common question is about how to
downgrade. Not the upgrade caused XXXX. The first reflex is it was
working and now it is not so lets revert to what worked. I have a
job to do and messing with a software update that messed something
up is not on today's TODO list. IT is a view I can relate to, even
if I do not necessarily agree.<br>
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So lets stop looking for why downgrading is bad and just accept that
users are going to do it. If we make it to hard they will vote with
their feet.<br>
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Matt<br>
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