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   Message 29,889 of 30,566   
   Alan K. to Bob Henson   
   Re: RSS feeds   
   13 Dec 25 10:08:28   
   
   From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 12/13/25 9:38 AM, Bob Henson wrote:   
   > I've set up Mint on a laptop and am running Thunderbird 140.6.0esr,   
   > which is the latest it's offered me.  I'm writing from a PC running   
   > Thunderbird 146.0 on Windows 11 here. I have regular RSS feeds (largely   
   > BBC) which, when articles are downloaded on the Windows machine,   
   > displays the picture plus the whole news article in the right hand   
   > panel. On the Mint laptop I only get the attached picture and no article   
   > - I have to click the URL and call up the article online in Firefox.   
   > I've just called up the settings panels for both machine's newsgroup   
   > accounts side by side and I have exactly the same settings on both   
   > machines. Is this a difference between the Linux and Windows 11   
   > Thunderbird versions, or am I missing something?   
   >   
   > The laptop is a desperately slow machine and takes an age to load/run   
   > Firefox for each article I read in full  so I'd obviously like to have   
   > the articles downloaded and shown within Thunderbird itself as on the   
   > Windows machine. Any help will be much appreciated.   
   >   
   I had similar issue.   
   See what you have in config-editor for 'rss.show.summary'. mine=1   
      
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   Linux Mint 22.2,  Mozilla Thunderbird 140.6.0esr,  Mozilla Firefox 146.0   
        Alan K.   
      
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