Hmm, when Thunderbird updates, there's sometimes an explanatory screen 
(probably release notes). That screen doesn't always talk for some 
reason. You might try ctrl+tab to find out if you have more than one 
tab. The explanatory screen is About. The other tab is probably an 
inbox. If this is the case, ctrl+tab to About; then ctrl+w to close that 
window.


If you're a Jaws user, be aware that Thunderbird doesn't always work 
well with Jaws. Sometimes subject lines aren't spoken. Other times 
message bodies aren't spoken. Still other times, all works as it should. 
Thunderbird works just fine with Narrator and NVDA. Not sure what the 
difference is.

On 10/19/2021 2:23 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was using thunderbird 52.4.
>
> I was told to upgrade to Thunderbird 91.3.
>
> So I did.
>
> And what do I get?
>
> Every time that I launch Thunderbird, I get the notification sound, 
> and it tells me that I received a certain number of messages, which is 
> what it is suppose to do, which is great, but 2 other things are 
> happening, which I cannot even see, but it gives a dong, as if 
> something else is happening, but who knows what that is.
>
> but it messes things up for a couple of minutes. I have no speech for 
> 30 seconds at a time.
>
> It doesn't even tell me what is going on.
>
> Then, I go to the article I have, about getting your windows computer 
> up and running, and go to the section about Thunderbird, and what to 
> do there, and, in 91.3, in the tools menu, there's not even an 
> options, it's a preferences web page, like Google Chrome, so, now, I 
> will have to redo the Thunderbird section of that article.
>
> So, the next time someone tells you to upgrade your thunderbird, to 
> keep it updated, if yours is still working great, and it's doing what 
> you want, and the newer version does not have any new features you 
> want, ignore them, because you'll be up the creek.
>
> Harry
>
>
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