Mail count not updating in icon badge

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TheCoalCracker
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Mail count not updating in icon badge

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Mark a message as unread and the badge does not update.
Seems to have happened since updating to 102.1.2 (64-bit). Worked fine before.
mail.notification.count.inbox_only is set to "false".
Tried restarts...no luck.
Happens in all folders.

Update:
Happens sporadically.
Fix: Exit TB, start in safe mode (badge shows), restart normal TB and all is OK.
Last edited by TheCoalCracker on August 18th, 2022, 6:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
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tanstaafl
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Re: Mail count not updating in icon badge

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New is not the same as unread. In many cases that difference doesn't matter but I'm used to seeing it matter for new mail notifications such as the icon badge.
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TheCoalCracker
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Re: Mail count not updating in icon badge

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I'm getting confused.
This morning, after starting my PC, 2 things happened:
1. The badge counter worked as it should. Option is set to "Count of unread messages"
2. Compaction worked on my inbox (reported in another post).
Only thing I can think of is that my cache2 folder had been relocated to my Ramdisk years ago, which is initialized during startup.
Config entry: added browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and set to R:\Thunderbird.
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