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Do Thunderbird and Firefox work well together?

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Carnal
Carnal

My ISP for 17 years, www. Spiritone.com , has gone dark - or almost - for nearly a month out of Portland , OR. Too bad ,but I have hung on long as I can. I have signed up for Fios/ Frontier.com just because the fiberoptic runs down my street and the landline is Frontier. Thunderbird has become my word processor and auxilliary brain and I very much want to stay with it. Frontier is tight with Yahoo and I spent 2 hours with a Frontier tech trying to configure Thunderbird to wotk with Yahoo – only to later get a message saying Yahoo bans Thunderbird as an insecure app. I agreed to allow the insecurity but so far that hasn't solved the config problem. I am old and a novice and I need help. If another browser could remedy this and config with Thunderbird I would love a suggestion.

My ISP for 17 years, www. Spiritone.com , has gone dark - or almost - for nearly a month out of Portland , OR. Too bad ,but I have hung on long as I can. I have signed up for Fios/ Frontier.com just because the fiberoptic runs down my street and the landline is Frontier. Thunderbird has become my word processor and auxilliary brain and I very much want to stay with it. Frontier is tight with Yahoo and I spent 2 hours with a Frontier tech trying to configure Thunderbird to wotk with Yahoo – only to later get a message saying Yahoo bans Thunderbird as an insecure app. I agreed to allow the insecurity but so far that hasn't solved the config problem. I am old and a novice and I need help. If another browser could remedy this and config with Thunderbird I would love a suggestion.

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Zenos
Zenos

Thunderbird is for email. Firefox is a web browser. There is no interaction or interdependence between the two. You can use either, both or neither because they by and large do two totally different things. Well, yes, you can do email via a web browser, but most folk who use an email client such as Thunderbird do so because they recognise it has certain advantages over the browser. You have clearly expressed a liking for Thunderbird.

I no longer use Yahoo. They had a severe data breach a few years ago but did not "fess up" to their user base until much later. They are not trustworthy and their service has given trouble for users with erratic and irrational changes in policy.

You don't have to use the email service offered by your ISP.