I have no idea what's causing this strange behavior. I've only heard of
one or two other people experiencing it and have never seen anything
remotely like it myself. So I have no clue as to what's causing this.
Has your friend tried upgrading Thunderbird from the help menu instead
of downloading the upgrade or a full installation? That's the way I
upgraded from 3.X to 7 and then to 8.
Note: if you upgrade to any version beyond 5 you have to do the
following to disable 2D direct rendering and graphics acceleration.
The following applies to Firefox version 4 or Thunderbird version 5 and
newer.
1. Launch Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird.
2. In Firefox, press Control-L
to open a new link.In Thunderbird, select the Tools menu followed by
Options. From
there, choose the advanced listbox item, Tab to the categories tab
control, and Left-Arrow
to General.
3. In Firefox, type
"about:config"
and press Enter. In Thunderbird, press Alt-C to open the configuration
editor.
4. If you are presented with a dialog which warns you about the dangers
of making changes, Tab to the "I'll be careful, I promise!"
button and press Enter.
5. At this point you should be out of Browse mode and on a filter Edit
Box. If not,
turn off Browse mode by pressing
Control-Shift-A.
6. In the filter Edit Box type "direct2d.disabled".
7. Press Tab
to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one called
"gfx.direct2d.disabled" with a default value of False.
8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True.
If enter doesn't work use the Application key to open a context menu and
select the
toggle option.
9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type
"layers.acceleration.disabled".
10. Press Tab
to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one called
"layers.acceleration.disabled" with a default value of False.
11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True or Application key to open
the context menu.
12. Press Control-W to close the configuration window.
13. Restart Firefox or Thunderbird.
you should now be able to use the mouse pointer to review web pages
while using Mozilla
Firefox version 4 or emails with Thunderbird version 5 and newer.
Hth,
Tom
On 11/24/2011 1:37 PM, Carol and Roger wrote:
Hello Group and Happy Thanksgiving!
Has anyone that is using TB 3.1.7 with the new WE upgrade resolved the
problem where everything that is typed into a message is repeated back.
My friend can not install the upgrade for TB on her computer and can't
get any assistance for a few more days. Sending email is getting to be
quite a challenge with the repeat speech. Thank you.
Carol
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