530082 - cannot uninstall talkback

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Olaf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 

- uninstalling the add-on talkback is impossible
- re-installing the app does not help, no de-selection of talkback available

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5)
> Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
> Build Identifier: 
> 
> - uninstalling the add-on talkback is impossible

Talkback is unmaintained software. It is replaced by the crash reporter in Thunderbird 3.0 ... Thunderbird 3.0rc1 should be announced next week.

> - re-installing the app does not help, no de-selection of talkback available
> 

I suppose you are using Thunderbird 2.x ?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>-  re-installing the app does not help, no de-selection of talkback available
That depends how you are reinstall.
If you just start the installer again and install over an older installation you can not deselect Talkback it because it's already installed and the installer installs software and doesn't uninstall it.

You can uninstall TB and install TB again and you should be able to deselect it.

If you just want to get rid of the crash window you can do it easier.
Open the talkback.exe in the TB installation folder and use the menu to disable it.

Comment 3

[Olaf]

a fresh install on a fresh installed (Win7) system did not let me skip talkback installation, so I ran talkback.exe. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This only applies to old Thunderbird 2 releases. We won't touch those in any significant way. Therefore resolving as WONTFIX.