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The update to 56.0b1 seems to have broken Enigmail - get message "Failed to initialize Enigmail" when sending.

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The update to 56.0b1 seems to have broken Enigmail - get message "Failed to initialize Enigmail" when sending.

My certificate seems to have been lost in the update process.

The update to 56.0b1 seems to have broken Enigmail - get message "Failed to initialize Enigmail" when sending. My certificate seems to have been lost in the update process.

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Quoting the author of Enigmail:

"Mozilla developers are removing a lot of APIs from Firefox (and consequently Thunderbird), and it's not surprising that Enigmail does not work until I adapt to those changes.

Some of these changes are even difficult to fix for Thunderbird."

You should be aware that things can break when using a beta. If you cannot afford that, only use the release version.

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Quoting the author of Enigmail:

"Mozilla developers are removing a lot of APIs from Firefox (and consequently Thunderbird), and it's not surprising that Enigmail does not work until I adapt to those changes.

Some of these changes are even difficult to fix for Thunderbird."

You should be aware that things can break when using a beta. If you cannot afford that, only use the release version.