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My message screen is devoid of the message bar containing the message "To protect your privacy... etc " How do I restore this?

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When viewing an incoming message the message bar containg the text "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message. " is not displayed, so there is no 'Options' button to view (or not) remote content. No messages that I receive display any remote content. How do I restore the option of viewing remote content?

When viewing an incoming message the message bar containg the text "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message. " is not displayed, so there is no 'Options' button to view (or not) remote content. No messages that I receive display any remote content. How do I restore the option of viewing remote content?

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In order for us to better investigate this issue, we'll need some more information.

Could you please do the following:

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The message bar and Options won't appear, and remote images will be blocked, if you have View/Message Body As set to anything besides Original HTML. Press Alt if the Menu Bar with View is hidden.

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Matt, part 1 follows, remainder in following post


 Application Basics
   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 60.9.0
   Build ID: 20190902145622
   Update Channel: release
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0
   OS: Windows_NT 10.0
   Multiprocess Windows: 0/0 (Disabled)
   Web Content Processes:
   Stylo: content = true (enabled by default), chrome = true (enabled by default)
   Enterprise Policies:
   Google Location Service Key: Missing
   Google SafeBrowsing Key: Missing
   Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
   Safe Mode: false
 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (pop3) pop.dial.pipex.com:110, plain, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , smtp.dial.pipex.com:25, plain, passwordCleartext, true
 Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
 All Crash Reports
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     Enabled
     ID
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     6.2.9
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     Antispyware:
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     Off Main Thread Painting Enabled: true
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Matt, remainder of trouble shooting info follows:

GPU #1

     Active: Yes
     Description: NVIDIA Quadro P1000
     Vendor ID: 0x10de
     Device ID: 0x1cb1
     Driver Version: 23.21.13.8816
     Driver Date: 10-30-2017
     Drivers: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumdx.dll C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumd.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumd.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumd.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvdw.inf_amd64_986ca537475e86bd\nvldumd.dll
     Subsys ID: 11bc10de
     RAM: 4096
     GPU #2
     Active: No
     Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
     Vendor ID: 0x8086
     Device ID: 0xting info following: