In today's builds, you'll find that news servers no longer "persisted" as open in the folder pane.
This means that if on exit, you had "news.mozilla.org" open in the folder pane, when you start back up, it will be closed. (Like we did in 4.x) The reasons for the switch: 1) it's friendlier on news servers. (if the server is open on startup, we update the unread counts. we do that by connecting to the news server and issuing a GROUP command on each newgroup you are subscribed to.) As always, when you expand the server (by double clicking on it, or opening the twisty) we'll update the unread counts. We just won't update them on startup. 2) doing this NNTP activity slows down startup for most users. For details, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103010 Like most things, there's a hidden boolean pref for this. "news.persist_server_open_state_in_folderpane" the default value in mailnews.js is false. If you want to return to the previous behaviour, set it to true in your prefs.js There is no UI for this pref. -Seth
