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Why did I get this message? I don't think I down loaded any thing. "Welcome to Daily Congratulations! You’ve downloaded or compiled a Daily build of Thunderbir

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I got this message.

Welcome to Daily

Congratulations! You’ve downloaded or compiled a Daily build of Thunderbird. These are the builds that contain the latest additions and changes to Thunderbird.

Earlybird is the place where we stabilise our features before pushing them to our beta users. Experience the newest innovations as they’re developed. I have no Idea where it came from and I don't have the knowledge to do developement work. How do I ensure that I only have the stable version on my computer?

I got this message. Welcome to Daily Congratulations! You’ve downloaded or compiled a Daily build of Thunderbird. These are the builds that contain the latest additions and changes to Thunderbird. Earlybird is the place where we stabilise our features before pushing them to our beta users. Experience the newest innovations as they’re developed. I have no Idea where it came from and I don't have the knowledge to do developement work. How do I ensure that I only have the stable version on my computer?

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If you want to turn off the start page display:

How to turn off the start page display: 'Tools' > 'Options' > 'General' or 'Menu icon > 'Options' > 'Options' > 'General' uncheck: 'when thunderbird launches, show start page in the message area' click on OK

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I would not worry about this. I'm also on a release channel and can see the same thing as you.

A bug has been reported to see what the bug fixers say. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1275168

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The person who enabled this message likely included other channels like Release by mistake.

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Chosen Solution

If you want to turn off the start page display:

How to turn off the start page display: 'Tools' > 'Options' > 'General' or 'Menu icon > 'Options' > 'Options' > 'General' uncheck: 'when thunderbird launches, show start page in the message area' click on OK

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So, even though it says I am on the NIGHTLY updates, I AM NOT???? I went from version 38 to version 45 in ONE UPDATE!!!

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Yes and the last general release was version 38. The newest general release is version 45.

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This was a website issue that got fixed Tuesday afternoon 2016-05-24