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   Message 29,891 of 30,566   
   Bob Henson to Alan K.   
   Re: RSS feeds   
   13 Dec 25 16:07:44   
   
   From: q59qr3wnw@mozmail.com   
      
   On 13/12/25 3:08 pm, Alan K. wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   Brilliant! Fixed it by changing to 0. That will save me a lot of time.   
   Thanks!   
      
      
      
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