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I have ver. 2.0.0.24. I have been using that for decades and never had a
need to upgrade. It does all I need, so why add more bloated crap.
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But now I am getting a constant error in Thunderbird that keeps saying I
dont have some security enabled. I looked in the settings and there is
no security enabled, but when I try to change it, it says that none of
them are usable.

I am sure that no versions made in recent years will load in Win98, but
maybe I can upgrade a few versions? Does anyone know if any newer
version will work? (Do they have better security features)?
Personally I could care less about security. All I do is chit chat with
a few friends and none of it has any secretive stuff. But I guess Google
has other ideas. They dont care who suffers, just as long as they can
control the internet. Soon, it will be much more secure, because no one
will be able to use it.

I don't know much about Thunderbird, but chances are that Google requires
TLS 1.1 or 1.2 as a minimum for encrypted connections (and has obviously
decided to no longer allow unencrypted connections).

Wikipedia's page on TLS lists the compatibility of web browsers. TLS 1.1
and 1.2 are shown as supported from Firefox Version 27. Thunderbird is
based heavily on Firefox, so the next version after Firefox 27 was
released (Feb. 2014) should also handle TLS 1.1 and 1.2.

The following links confirm that Thunderbird received support at the
same time as Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733647
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=861266
Yes, they're HTTPS so you probably can't check them. I just like to
include these things for the record.

The Thunderbird version with support is probably V. 28, but V. 31 would
likely be better because 28 was a beta release.

If you can't run Firefox 27 and view HTTPS sites using TLS 1.1 or 1.2,
I'd be doubtful that you'd get Thunderbird 28 or later working. On the
other hand, if you can get Thunderbird 31 working with Kernel Ex, you'll
probably also be able to get Firefox 27 installed as well and view
websites again.

Another option is to use web mail and find a new email server with a
website that suits your browser. Many of the interfaces that can be
chosen at safe-mail.net should work well in FF 3.6, and they still
allow TLS 1.0 connections (disable SSL 3.0 support in the settings
(Advanced Encryption) if you have trouble). You only get a 3MB
inbox for free accounts though.


By the way, my current HTTP web proxy is:
http://www.youtubeproxy.pw/
This works in Firefox V. 2:
http://www.youtubeproxy.pw/beta
Just in case you finally decide to give proxies a try...


Wikipedia pages referenced for version information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transp...y#Web_browsers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...la_Thunderbird
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