How to revert to Thunderbird 14? Thunderbird 15 breaks an add-on

[David]

On 8/30/2012 3:01 PM, Don Levey wrote:
> On 8/30/2012 14:58, David wrote:
>> On 8/30/2012 2:29 PM, Don Levey wrote:
>>> On 8/30/2012 11:10, Nate Pearlstein wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> So thunderbird 15 breaks the Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Tasks
>>>> Provider 1.8.5 add on.  There isn't a newer version of the add-on
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be nice if the installation routine checked for add-on
>>> incompatibilities *before* it actually installed the new version?
>>>    -Don
>>>
>>
>>
>> Why would you expect Mozilla to check each and every one of thousands of
>> extensions, written by other developers, to be compatible with an
>> updated Thunderbird. Especially when that update also provides security
>> patches?
>>
>> I would think that the *user* should be responsible to check that. That
>> way the *user* would know that this extension still works when mixed in
>> with all of the other extensions that this *user* has installed. A
>> compilation that might be unique. A 'one of a kind' combination.
>>
> Because they do it *after* installation.  Why not do it before
> installation instead?  I'm not talking about random extensions that are
> created off in some backwater corner of the internet.  I'm talking about
> extensions registered with the Mozilla project, downloaded and installed
> from there.


So you are saying that the *user* does not check extension compatibility 
*before* the user updates Thunderbird?

Try as hard as they might nothing is idiot proof. Idiots are too 
resourseful.  :-)




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   David