Harry,
The Search box you find when Thunderbird opens can be removed. You need
to go into the View menu (alt+v) to do it. There may also be a Calendar
between you and your messages, so you may want to turn that off too
while you're in the View menu. It's been a while since I did that, so I
don't remember where stuff is exactly. When Thunderbird updates, you
often have to go back into the View menu to mess with those settings.
I don't use Jaws very often nowadays. My experience, over the years, has
been that Jaws and Thunderbird go through periods of not playing nice
together. When one or the other updates, it isn't unusual for some
problem or other to crop up. Thunderbird is working fine with Narrator
and with NVDA. When I was still primarily a Jaws user and we were in one
of our Jaws-and-Thunderbird-are-clashing cycles, I would just switch
screen readers whenever I would launch Thunderbird.
Ciao
On 11/18/2021 12:42 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Using thunderbird 91.3 and I have problems.
>
> 1. When I start thunderbird, as usual, you hear the beep, and it tells
> me how many messages I received, which is fantastic.
>
> But then, it gives another beep, and jaws doesn't tell me anything.
>
> Then, it gives me another beep, and I don't know what's going on, and
> I can't use the keyboard, for seconds at a time.
>
> Then this stupid search pops up.
>
> I'll open an email, and the search pops up.
>
> I wonder if there are toolbars, which I need to get rid of?
>
> And if there are, how do I do that?
>
> How do I get rid of this stuff happening?
>
> Also, when I start thunderbird, the same messages I just deleted, come
> back, so I have to delete them again!
>
> I am very strongly, considering going back to 58.2, because in that
> version, there are none of these problems.
>
> This is driving me nuts!
>
> Harry
>
>
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