Number of Newsgroup Subscriptions

Using TBird v3.0 and Win XP.

Just upgraded to TB v3.0 the other day. Am noticing that newsgroup (NG)
subscriptions are maxing out at 2 NGs. When I add a 3rd NG, the new NG
loads. But when I exit out of TB and come back in, the newly-added NG
is there, but one of the original 2 NGs drops off. So, never more than
2 NGs displaying at a time.

News provider is Tera News (teranews.com) and I use their server called
free.teranews.com

If this is not a TB issue and possibly a Tera News issue, I'll check
with them. But the ability to have 3+ NG subscriptions at one time was
never an issue prior to upgrading to TB v3.0.

 

I have 8 NGs. I use Thunderbird 3 and Eternal September.

 

Thanx-- am not familiar with Eternal September and can't find the
website to inquire, maybe join. Any info/link is appreciated.

 

eternal-september.org

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Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon:
http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3
http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

 

Another thing I just noticed. The 3rd newsroup, as listed in the ''All
Folders'' pane (on my screen left side) -- when it has new mail, the All
Folders'' pane has a font color of light blue, while all other folder
colors are in black. Never saw that (blue font color) before.

 

could be theme related, or you have something in your
userChrome.css file or in the stylish addon.

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Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon:
http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3
http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

 

this is my chrome.css file -- I don't see anything here identifiable:

/* Change Browser Fonts */
* { font-size: 10pt !important;
font-family: arial !important; }

/* Folderpane(color/text) & Messagepane(color) */
treechildren {
background-color: #FFE6FF !important;
font-family: arial !important;
font-size: 9pt !important; }

 

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Yes problem continues. As a matter of fact before I removed
userChrome.css file, all NGs vanished -- all I saw was the Account
name in the folder list.

[userChrome.css file is removed and saved to desktop, but is not in
Profile folder.]

Heard back from TeraNews -- no apparent issues at their end and no
change in number of NGs permitted (unlimited).

So, removed userChrome.css file from Profile folder and deleted the
Teranews account -- and re-created Teranews account. Reloaded 2 NGs
(very slow process, seemed to make TB unstable). Exited out of TB,
came back in and only 1 of the 2 NGs re-loaded were there.

Question: Can I do complete uninstall/reinstall of TB ... and upon
reinstall, TB will populate with all user profiles and settings again?

 

Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon:http://melaman2.com/cartoons/
singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

I signed up -- when the NGs load, I don't even see this NG when I
search for alt.fan.mozilla -- should I?

 

One more thing I've noticed: In Task Mgr, thunderbird.exe isn't
shutting down for a few minutes, even after TB windows close. Entire
program seems very unstable at moment. Using approx 575,000K memory
usage -- I don't know if that should be the normal, approximate amount.

 

Thanx -- will try that. But what about the fact that TB is not
shutting down completely in Task Mgr? Maybe related to the [possibly
funky] profile?

 

OK, a new profile seems to be working. Thanx, Ed.

I did notice when I originally upgraded to TB 3.0, there were a dozen
add-ons active, none of which I added -- wonder where they came from or
how they got added ?

So now on to copying my old profile folders into thew new profile -- are
there any I should not copy to the new profile?

 

if you uninstall, all you're doing is removing the
program. The profile is NOT touched. The profile is
where the vast majority of problems are.

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*IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email
help!!!!

Warning: Private emails sent to me may become public

Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon:
http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3
http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

 

Peter and Ed -- Thanx for your help. Seems to be working fine with new
profile. Every time I try to use the old profile, it pretty much
freezes TB. With new profile, TB uses about 51K memory, with the old
profile, it was using 575,000K.

Disregard my questions about Eternal September -- I've signed up and
configured it to ''always authenticate'', which is why I wasn't seeing
the other groups. If I ever need to use it, I've got it set up &
ready-to-go.

I've learned to not always try to figure out the "why" of a problem
occurring -- just git'er fixed, which the new profile seems to have
accomplished. I suspect the problem has something to do with the dozen
or so add-ons I found in TB after upgrading to v3.0 -- altho I did not
put them there. I'm not an "add-on kinda guy". Strange, at best.

I'll give the new profile 24 hrs of operating time before I delete the
old one -- just in case the issue reoccurs with the new profile.

 

Yes, son and wife use machine but they don't mess with add-ons -- they
surf or do school papers -- and that's about it. I checked and no one
has done anything like that. I disabled all add-ons, but it did not matter.

 

We all heave separate profiles for FF and T-Bird, which is why I don't
think they have anything to do with my profile issues.