On Thursday 10 August 2017 13:05:02 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > Hi, > > > It is a known bug we reported under number 870719. The problem is that > this release builds against GTK3 and, in stable releases (including > oldstable), it is a problem. The solution we suggest to the > maintainer, and known to work), is building against GTK2 as > Thunderbird 45 was. We are waiting for maintainers feedbacks, as we > really think it is a debian-specific bug. Debian does not have to > build against GTK3 and should not, given problems in display. > > > Regards,
In this old farts mind, gtk3 should been still born. gtk2 left one heck of a legacy code base behind and they won't let us use it anymore even on wheezy. Thats about the same vacuum suckage as halfway to Alpha Centari. > Le 10/08/2017 à 18:29, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Thursday 10 August 2017 11:08:44 Joe wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:24:43 -0400 > >> > >> Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: > >>> After this upgrade > >>> > >>> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) > >>> > >>> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because > >>> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the > >>> window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this? > >>> > >>> Using different desktop themes or logging in as a different user > >>> results in same behavior. > >>> > >>> I'm curious to know whether this is being seen in different > >>> desktop environments, too. > >> > >> Not only that, but not just Thunderbird, Firefox also trashed. > >> > >> New update today OK. > >> > >> Never just have one mail client or one browser installed, at least > >> not in Sid... > > > > Despite a mozilla-flash update this AM, firefox is still DIW, will > > not play a video, not even the commercial in front of it. Using > > chromium for my default browser now. > > > > Do I detect an effort to kill mozilla/firefox? It has not worked > > for any videos but you-tubes in 6 months. And for the last several > > weeks, not even there, as the debian version has no html5 support > > according the window the video is supposed to play in. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
