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Thuderbird actinting strange, affecting otherapps

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rfsoukup
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Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account

This will allow Mozilla Thunderbird Email to:

Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail

See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts

See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar

Mzila Fire Fox that has me perplexed. There is a line that reads, In part….. https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/legacy/consent? uthuser=0&part=AJi8hAO27SA1jp0smbnYjSww31z06r6NnelkFAEXAX1pRgQq_2fkoC2lI-Rs0mf3jYCnMSdoG2Gr9V6XDkmWlQydzTYpDy4U-OREnYRGiXK0wIrp32BEL1sC1QyzBm-ZzUFPi6sQw3DCq7hh-HL7ZEAw9QDzw22rmwU7DPjP1nMpdWenxE6fE4LwyjUnAobeE3RPLIWik4O3f5U4lSI1Hwj0AiWBCsLD-

Mozilla Thunderbird Email wants to access your Google Account This will allow Mozilla Thunderbird Email to: Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Mzila Fire Fox that has me perplexed. There is a line that reads, In part….. https://accounts.google.com/signin/oauth/legacy/consent? uthuser=0&part=AJi8hAO27SA1jp0smbnYjSww31z06r6NnelkFAEXAX1pRgQq_2fkoC2lI-Rs0mf3jYCnMSdoG2Gr9V6XDkmWlQydzTYpDy4U-OREnYRGiXK0wIrp32BEL1sC1QyzBm-ZzUFPi6sQw3DCq7hh-HL7ZEAw9QDzw22rmwU7DPjP1nMpdWenxE6fE4LwyjUnAobeE3RPLIWik4O3f5U4lSI1Hwj0AiWBCsLD- ''' '''

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Ed
Ed
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It's not a privacy issue. You need to allow TB to access your Gmail, but you have control over what TB does with it.

Wayne Mery
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Ed said
It's not a privacy issue. You need to allow TB to access your Gmail, but you have control over what TB does with it.

This is exactly correct.

This prompt is displayed by google, to double check that you in fact want to permit giving this access to Thunderbird - which is actually your goal. (You've already logged in, so I've never understood the value for this check myself)

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