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.

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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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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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