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I want to backup the entire T-bird email database (all my emails) outside of T-bird as simply as possible. How does one do this in, I hope, one easy step? Note that I have 8 accounts (1 is g-mail). (I don't know which category this fits into.)

Have been having an issue for the past month or two where if left in the background firefox will slowly start to eat up my available ram. I was using it like this perfectly fine for years previous to now.

I dont have this issue when I'm actively using it, only when I tab away from it and specifically its not on screen. Once I tab back to firefox the ram usage immediately dips back down to normal. I have tried many things to try and solve this like doing a clean install of firefox, getting rid of extensions, clearing my browser cache, closing all other apps to verify it was just firefox, clearing my history, turning on hardware acceleration. Nothing seems to help, im really at a loss and I don't understand what changed besides it being updated in the past couple of months.

My computer is fairly heavy duty and I have 16gb of ddr4 ram that again was working perfectly fine to run firefox before these past couple of months. As a result of this issue however if left in the background for too long on accident firefox uses up all my idle ram and starts causing other programs to not be able to run and has even crashed my computer previously when trying to run a program like clip studio paint.

I have noticed that while running the firefox task manager there is definitely some difference in memory usage when i tab back in after letting it be in the background so I have attached screenshots of the regular usage while tabbed in and the captured usage when i tab back in.

Any possible solution is welcome because I really enjoy using firefox and i dont want to have to switch browsers unless absolutely necessary.

Hi there, Cant add a second account to TBird on new installation on new PC with WIN 11. Works fine on WIN 10 and LINUX Mint but fails authentication on new WIN 11 PC. First account goes on OK but cant add a second. Have checked all setting but cant see a problem. Please advise. Thanks John

i just installed Thunderbird on my mac and it cannot get past the initial setup. i enter my email provider username and password and it just crashes.

tried starting in safe mode and creating new profile using terminal...same issue. continues to just crash.

little help?

thanks!

Jesse

Hello:

I am trying to create a csv file of my passwords to import to Microsoft Edge from FF. I went through these steps in Firefox:

Settings>General>Import>Select Passwords from CSV...

...and then it takes me to browse my computer for a CSV file that I have YET to create. I don't think this is how you create such a file.

I'm not sure how to import my passwords to create a CSV file so I can put them into MS Edge. When I tried importing my password (and all my other data) inside of Edge via Edge, it only brought in 235 passwords from Firefox where I have 422. So I would assume if I used and imported my passwords to Edge via a CSV file instead that all my passwords would populate in Edge not roughly half of them.

Could you please tell me how to create a password CSV file in Firefox to use in Edge?

Many thanks in adabce

My android phone has access to a USB pen-drive on which I placed a backup copy of all my TB folders. Can I use TB for android locally to read these emails? How? Thank you.

like the topic says i cant get my outlook acount to work in thunderbird,i read some where that i need to change the settings but since it wont allow me to log in i cant do that. i have no idea what to do.

I find the 4 boxes on the Contrast Control/Manage Colors settings confusing. I've tried just about everything for an issue I've had for months. When I use the automatic settings there is a dark background. Visited links pops up white (readable) and immediately changes to purple so that I can barely see it. This happens on multiple web sites. Amazon and Ebay are examples.

I copied addresses to address book which tells me that over 400 items are there but they are not visible. I can delete these invisible addresses one by one even though there is nothing there if I go to edit. How can I make these addresses visible, or what can i do to get rid of them and start over.

To all Thunderbird Tech Junkies -

I have been using Thunderbird for well over 20 years. But, this year it did me in.

My email, john@jtbcpa.com, was hosted by some no name outfit that was poor. It took forever for emails to send, and I could not update away messages..

I asked my internet guy to move my email from the old profile to gmail. I was hoping to keep my same profile and email on Thunderbird, without having to change to either Outlook or some other software to run email.

So, my internet guy moved the john@jtbcpa.com to Gmail. However, once he moved the email Gmail, Thunderbird, gave me several problems - as follows.

1. No matter how many times we tried to add the new email address to Thunderbird, it could not find the server. We tried multiple gmail settings. No go.

2. I am not the experienced in updating computers, but I had updated email on Thunderbird many times before. For both new accounts, and new computers. It took time, but I made it work. I could always find the files in the profile folder that I needed to copy and move.

However, the new Thunderbird would not allow me to go in and manually alter settings when it was looking for the john@jtbcpa.com account on Gmail. Thunderbird kept telling me it could not find the account on the server. And, manual setup was not available on the updated Thunderbird software. Why????

3. The email works fine when you go to the GMail web site.

4. Since I needed a better platform than the GMail website, we were able to load the john@jtbcpa.com email on Outlook. However, I did not have all my email addresses. (after 20 years I have about 2000 email address.)

5. I thought I could export the email address from Thunderbird to a CSV file and maybe load them into outlook. However, when I went to export, there was only one option to export and that was to export everything. Which included thousands of old emails and addresses from various email accounts. That was not going to help. What happened to the export tool which would download or export your email addresses only?

So, I have to look at the old emails in Thunderbird to get the email addresses.

I am not sure why the update to Thunderbird is so limited. I have loved the program for many years. It was easy to use.

And, I was always able to get all previous email addresses to work.

In conclusion, I am not sure why Thunderbird cannot recognize my john@jtbcpa.com account. It can see my other two gmail accounts, brozowski99@gmail.com and john@johncpa.com. Maybe the person who upgraded the account put some sort of block on it through gmail. I don't know.

I have spent hours on this transition, which should not have taken more than an hour. And, I even offered to pay someone to call me to help me with the platform. This is where internet online services and AI are useless. I need a tech savvy Thunderbird expert to call me, go on my computer, and make it work. But, all the responses I got was - "We will not do that."

So, I am forced to move to Outlook. I am not happy, and all the old emails will remain on Thunderbird.

I know the software was free. And, I was happy to pay someone to get it to work. Or, maybe look at my gmail settings to see if there is a blocker preventing Thunderbird from seeing the account.

No need to respond - I just needed to vent.

John Brozowski

Hello, Recently tried to open a Extension clicking it to configurate it, but the Extension menu didn't show up. I tried using other profiles, clear my data and a bunch of things. It happens with any Extension.

• It started happening when I formatted my PC
• It's not a Extension problem, it's firefox problem because i tried in other browsers
• I tried using other Firefox versions and forks
• Also using geckium theme (Makes firefox look like Chrome 2009+)

Please, if you can help me i will thank that.

I installed a new version of Thunderbird for my wife because her version was very old. I deliberately installed the new version in a different directory than the older version. The mailboxes seem to be in the appropriate directory but they are not displayed under Local Folders. How do I correct this problem? Thank you. Geoff

All of a sudden, this error message started popping up every time I open my in box. Please help: What is the problem, and what can I do about it? I am not expert enough to figure out what I must do just from reading the error message. Image below. Thanks.