Yesterday I started noticing a strange issue in the Thunderbird email client. I could open the email client as usual, and mail would be retrieved. I was also able to click on one mailbox and read the mails there. But when I tried to click on another mailbox, or another folder of the same mailbox, [...]

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For the last days I have been receiving lags and issues both in the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. With Thunderbird I’m experiencing lags where the window is not responding for some time. I just have to wait and the window becomes accessible again. With Firefox it is another issue. The browser [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox, Windows

I’m running a basic theme on my Windows 8 Professional system, mostly because I do not like the transparency effects at all. If you have installed or updated the email client Thunderbird recently under Windows, you may have noticed that Mozilla Messaging went in heavy in regards to Aero support. All toolbars make use of [...]

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Thunderbird, like any other email program, comes with an address book that contains email addresses and often other information about contacts. The program by default adds all outgoing email contacts automatically to the address book. The address book may contain more information than just the email address and name of the contact. Information may include [...]

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I use a custom folder structure for all my email accounts in Thunderbird. Part of that structure is powered by message filters that automatically put emails into folders based on selected parameters. I do that to keep my inbox clean and tidy. One example: I do get a lot of status messages and alerts from [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

You may know that I made the switch to Thunderbird 3.3 some time ago which is currently available as a alpha 2 release. Most of the extensions available for Thunderbird are not compatible with this version. I never really bothered to find a solution for that since I did not make use of must-use extensions [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

When you purchase a new computer you often want to move at least some data from the old computer to the new. At the very top of the lists are usually email accounts if a desktop email client like Thunderbird or Outlook is used. The same move may be necessary after a hard drive crash [...]

Categories: Email, Tutorials Basic

Firefox and Thunderbird share several components which makes it easier to develop for both applications but can also mean that there are some side effects that are better dealt with. One of those effects are plugins that are automatically loaded in the Thunderbird email client. Plugins? You know, stuff like Google Update, iTunes Application Detector, [...]

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When you reply to an email in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client you are automatically positioned at the very bottom of the quoted email. Users who want to write the reply on top need to scroll up to get there before they can start writing the email. This is especially frustrating if the reply contains [...]

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