Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:90.0~b2-1
Followup-For: Bug #990631
X-Debbugs-Cc: pitsior...@gmail.com
First things first, I missed message #20. It seems that the errors on the
terminal are identical for ff 89 and tb 90b2 and, imho, irrelevant to the
preferences tab issue.
I do think nvidia is the culprit too and I will try to troubleshoot it on my
own.
So far I have enabled/disabled hardware acceleration and webgl with no luck. I
will keep looking. I am sure it has to do with the proton redesign.
I tried the binary that mozilla provides and the preferences tab opens there
with no issues at all (fresh profile etc). The output in the terminal is the
same though.
My friend (arch user) also has tried both the binary and compiling it from
source. And he mentions the same: the preferences tab opens at the binary but
not at the compiled one.
In both systems, the error console (ctrl+shift+j) reports this error
Uncaught ReferenceError: XPCOMUtils is not defined
<anonymous> chrome://messenger/content/preferences/preferences.js:37
and a link below that that leads here, which is too complicated for us to
understand. I hope the above error helps though.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Errors/Not_defined
Last but not least, I also use the esr versions of tb (but not of ff), but once
a year, when the new tb version is nearing its release, I switch to the beta
one to see what is new.
And to find issues like this one too, so as to report them early.
To be honest, last time I used the preferences dialog was a couple of years ago
that I wanted to make the font for my (incoming and outgoing) emails bigger and
prettier. The default one was some tiny monospace one that looked bad. And I
have not opened the preferences tab since then.
