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60.0 Selected menu options are blanked out.

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nigelmay
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If, for instance, I go to the advanced option in Display/Formatting/Advanced (see screen capture) it shows me that mails are set to Unicode (UTF-8), Fine. However, if I want to change it and select the drop down menu, the Unicode UTF-8 option is at the top of the list of options, but there is no text visible, just a white box. If I then go down the list with the mouse, the UTF-8 text appears the minute it is not selected but the next option in turn is now no longer visible. It happens if I use the cursor keys to scroll through the list rather than the mouse. This seems to happen with all menus. What is wrong?

If, for instance, I go to the advanced option in Display/Formatting/Advanced (see screen capture) it shows me that mails are set to Unicode (UTF-8), Fine. However, if I want to change it and select the drop down menu, the Unicode UTF-8 option is at the top of the list of options, but there is no text visible, just a white box. If I then go down the list with the mouse, the UTF-8 text appears the minute it is not selected but the next option in turn is now no longer visible. It happens if I use the cursor keys to scroll through the list rather than the mouse. This seems to happen with all menus. What is wrong?
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sfhowes
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See the attached picture from my TB 60/W7 Options. If you don't see something similar, you may have a broken layout. Run TB in safe mode (hold Shift when you launch TB), and see if it makes any difference.

nigelmay
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Thanks for your reply. I have decided to revert to 52.9.1 which was stable and all the add ins I had set up over the years were all valid and working. 60 broke too many of them and with issues such as the one I asked about it was a pita.

Matt
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nigelmay said

Thanks for your reply. I have decided to revert to 52.9.1 which was stable and all the add ins I had set up over the years were all valid and working. 60 broke too many of them and with issues such as the one I asked about it was a pita.

Thunderbird 60 disabled you non supported add-ons. (Those not marked by their authors as compatible with Thunderbird 60) That is because they make Thunderbird unstable if enabled. Can you confirm you either re-enabled the add-ons or had some marked as being for Thunderbird 60 that caused issues?

nigelmay
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I disabled and removed all 60.0 non-compatible add ins and the problem was still there. Now that I have reverted to 53.9.1, everything is as it always used to be.