[NBLUG/talk] Finding and reporting a bug in Thunderbird email client

[Brad Morrison]

Hi all,

I use Mozilla's Thunderbird email client, 
(https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/) on my Dell E7440 laptop running 
Linux Mint 20.3. I have noticed a problem when composing messages in 
Thunderbird for many months now and for some reason last week, it 
occurred to me to file a bug report. I have never reported a bug before.

Thunderbird uses the BugZilla bug reporting system to log and track bugs 
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Thunderbird

I searched BugZilla and found that the same bug had already been 
reported about 3 months ago - 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773184
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773184>

So I added my comments/experience/details to the existing bug report and 
uploaded a screenshot.

We'll see what happens...

I don't know how many other NBLUG members also use Thunderbird as their 
email client - ? We did talk a bit about Thunderbird at a recent NBLUG 
meeting in regards to their merge with the Android email app K-9 
(https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/). 
I assume that most of you reading this have filed bug reports before and 
many of you have worked on investigating and fixing bugs from reports 
like the one I just added to. Any feedback/advice would be much 
appreciated.

I do realize that the current version of Thunderbird is 102.2.2 but I 
have the most current/recent version available in the Linux Mint/Ubuntu 
repositories.

Hope to see you all on Tuesday evening!

Brad

P.S. I left the text of this message as is, although I normally 
highlight all and change it at the end because the break from my default 
font Times to 'Variable Width' happens all the time and I figured that I 
should highlight the issue I was reporting.
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