[tor-bugs] #21165 [Applications/TorBirdy]: Uninstall not working

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#21165: Uninstall not working
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 Reporter:  thwaller               |          Owner:  sukhbir
     Type:  defect                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Very High              |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/TorBirdy  |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                  |     Resolution:
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Comment (by sukhbir):

 >  What I was expecting was a removal process that left basically no trace
 of it being installed. I ended up with a mess, I changed many settings
 back in the UI, as well as needing to go through the Config changes to
 manually change back for those not found in the UI.

 Which should not happen because it does remove all traces. So what I am
 curious about is to see if we can reproduce this. Question: did you
 manually change any preference before doing the uninstall?

 >  The setting "mailnews.display.date_senders_timezone" keeps changing
 itself to "true". If I manually set it to "false", it just changes itself
 back to true.

 Does it change back after restart? Again, this is a TorBirdy preference
 (the original preference is `mailnews.display.original_date`) that is
 covered in the wiki in the "Before using TorBirdy" section. This is a
 preference that TorBirdy changes and so you can't override it with your
 own setting. The only way to fix this (for now, we will have a way to
 allow preference overriding in future releases) is to compile TorBirdy
 with this preference removed, which I agree is not ideal but the reason
 behind this design is also covered in the "Before Using TorBirdy" section.

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