Web Application Tab For Thunderbird
The Thunderbird email client uses the same core that the Mozilla Firefox browser uses. This means that it is possible to open websites and services directly in the email software which can be handy at times. Add-ons are needed to add the functionality though, or at least to make it easily accessible.
Web Application Tab (WAT) is just one of the possible extensions that offer that functionality. Its core advantage over other solutions is its simplicity. All it takes is to configure specific web addresses in the application to open them in tabs in the email client whenever they need to be accessed.
Say you want to have access to your Google Calendar, Hotmail Inbox or Facebook profile page. All of this and a lot more is easily done with WAT.
Web addresses are added in the options. They are accessible from the WAT menu at the top of the email client. A new application is defined by a name and an application url, for Gmail this can be Gmail and https://mail.google.com/ for instance.
The order of websites can be changed easily in the options, and it is possible to delete applications that are no longer needed. Each application is opened in a tab in the background by default with an option to hold down Shift to reverse it.
All added web applications are accessible from the WAT menu at the top. They open in tabs in the email client and can be used just like they would have been opened in Firefox. Having said that, it is possible to use all websites and applications that work in Firefox.
Applications in tabs stay open even after the email client has been closed by the user. Thunderbird does not come with forward or backward buttons by default. It is possible to right-click on a page to make use of the buttons or to use the shortcuts that are added by the extension. More information about those shortcuts are available at the extension's home over at Mozilla.com.
Web Application Tab is a versatile, straightforward extension to open websites in Thunderbird.
Update: The Thunderbird extension is no longer available as it has been removed from the addons repository by its author. You can use a comparable extension such as ThunderBrowse instead to open websites directly in the Thunderbird email client.
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Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
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Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
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I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
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Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!