1827445 - Clicking Star icon in emails to mark as Starred does not change colour.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1824555

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Jonathon Whaley]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Click the email Star does not mark the Star, as in change the colour and vice versa.
Using Right click/Mark/Add Star does work and vice versa.

Actual results:

The email does not become marked with a Star.
If it has got a Star, clicking it does not 'un-star' it.

Expected results:

Email Star should mark/highlight and vice versa.
I think this was a previous bug which was fixed in an earlier version.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Working on Daily. Try 113beta. Might have been bug 1826999.

Comment 2

[Jonathon Whaley]

Hi Magnus,
If I understand correctly, I have to download the 113 beta and (after backing up my profile) install it over the existing profile.
On checking the Profile folder, I only have one profile, called "jbyxvemd.default-beta"
What I would like to do is have a stable version of Thunderbird also running. (I have POP, not IMAP)
I have looked at the various help articles
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/#howto
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_restoring-a-profile-backup

To be frank, they are numerous and bewildering.
Can you give me any pointers or let me know which of the above pages I should try and follow?
Thanks,
Jonathon

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Jonathon Whaley from comment #2)

Hi Magnus,
If I understand correctly, I have to download the 113 beta and (after backing up my profile) install it over the existing profile.

No, if you already have beta installed, newer versions will be offered if you do Help > About

On checking the Profile folder, I only have one profile, called "jbyxvemd.default-beta"
What I would like to do is have a stable version of Thunderbird also running. (I have POP, not IMAP)
I have looked at the various help articles
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/beta/#howto
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_restoring-a-profile-backup

Since you are already running beta and have a beta profile, you must adjust https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager to running release alongside beta. In other words, install release from https://www.thunderbird.net/ - on first run it will create a release profile for you. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profile-thunderbird-installation ensures that when you start beta that it will use the beta profile, when you start release it will use the release profile.

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Fixed in 113.0b1. Should be a dupe of bug #1824555