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I have change to a new PC and i could not renember my password. I have to get acces to my account by a link to reset my passeword. After that I can not import my bookmarks to the new pc.

hello i wish to export book marks from floorp my default browser but when i down load a browse and go to the import section i am asked to import from browsers which i do not have on my p c i just want to import bookmarks from floorp can you help please

Any user views on Betterbird over TB. The developer has done a great job and has one thing I do like and that is the ability to colour the highlighted email account rather than just the envelope icon. Experiences are appreciated so I can make the informed decision on which to use. Should I decide to use it how does one just port TB and its settings over to Betterbird.?

Thanks for views.

I would like to convert to Thunderbird. I have a very extensive list of Tasks and ToDo items including many repeating tasks for clients. I would like to avoid reentering these in Thunderbird. I can get these into a spreadsheet from their current application.

Will Thunderbird allow me to import or upload tasks?

Is there a format or template available to assure I have complete data?

TB has now locked for me saying "Downloading message 158 of 289 in Inbox..." However, that is just the latest of TB behaving bizarrely over the last few days: filters not working, TB repeatedly re-downloading whole folders and now this is the last straw. Same sort of short pause then total lockup in troubleshoot mode too.

I have to have an Emailer I am not constantly fighting and debugging. My sense now is that the main database structures of my TB have somehow been corrupted.

I think this may go back to [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1541906]. That problem transferred to a different folder when I changed my filter to redirect the routine messages to that different filter so it wasn't the folder, I didn't have time to sleuth it further and as it only affected those messages, which were not important, I ignored it and TB worked fine for other things. Then it even stopped happening with new ones of those messages but still if I opened one of the old ones, TB would lock. Again, I didn't really need the old ones so I ignored this.

Disconcertingly, Firefox, my main browser, has today become afflicted with something similar: launches, OK for about a minute, then locks, no different in troubleshoot. I will report that and come back and add the link here but perhaps some mix of Mozilla and KDE and or Ubuntu recent changes are behind this but the TB problem above was there on Ubuntu and has been brewing all week so a shared Firefox/TB issue is not the whole story.

I am not sure how much longer I can persist with TB given the frequency with which I have had really nasty problems with it in recent years. However, I feel a loyalty (I am a financial contributor) and I know that rebuilding my filters in another Emailer will take probably a full day (and I don't know what I'd swap to, using Kmail/Kontact for now so I'm not Emailless). So I would like to have one last go and my wish is to create a clean install and then I hope, rescue my address books and filters from the dying version and see if one last go can resuscitate things. So my questions, as I think the correct answers to this have varied a lot over recent years. I would like answers known to work for TB is 140.5.0esr (64 bit) on Kubuntu 25.10 if possible but Ubuntu 25.10 is obviously close.

• How do I best save and transfer the address books?
• Ditto all my filters (a lot!)

TIA, Chris

I have a Windows 10 machine, have been using Thunderbird and pobox for years.

In case you're not familiar with pobox, it is a mail forwarding service; I pay for an email address and they forward email to up to three servers. I've thereby kept the same email address for a very long time, just changed the address(es) they forward to as I change ISPs, etc. At some point I quit using my ISPs server for my email and just used the one at pobox.com. Pobox was purchased by Fastmail, and so they have some new server names; my old ones have continued to work on my current system.

I use POP3 instead of IMAP because I want the email on my machine, not on a server somewhere. I configured Thunderbird to do this long ago, and so I don't remember details; I've been depending on being able to extract any needed information from its configuration. I am confident I have the password correct; I can log into the web interface to my email, and the password works there.

My new machine is a dual-boot Win11/Ubuntu; my plan is to use the Ubuntu machine almost exclusively and only boot Win11 when necessary. I want to move email operations to the new Ubuntu machine.

I've read info on moving Thunderbird; I find the profiles on the source machine, move up two directory levels, find the equivalent directory on the new machine, copy with replace. I found:

c:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird

on the Win10 machine, and

Home/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird

on the Ubuntu machine, so I copied the files from the first to the second.

Having done that, when I start up Thunderbird, it displays a page saying "Set up your existing email address". If I do that, of course, it will create a new profile, and I still won't have the old one. I've tried creating it manually, but (a) I don't know how I will then merge it with an old profile and my thousands of email messages, and (b) I'm having trouble figuring out the incoming and outgoing server settings. I remember struggling with that back on Win7 or whenever it was.

Anyway. Anyone got suggestions on what might be going wrong here?

I bought a Windows 11 computer that I am transitioning from a Windows 10 computer. I like to start out with a clean slate and install from scratch. I exported my feeds into a.oplm file from the Windows 10 Computer. Opening up the .oplm file is see text as "xmlUrl="https://feed.podbean.com/potcast name/feed.xml". Is that the url entry that I used to enter in the URL for the feed if I manually subscribe to a Thunderbird RSS feed?

Hello,

We ARE on version 145.

I spend an ENTIRE DAY following this information, especially that section regarding to "alternative method for manual transfer between Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers"

[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-com...]

IT DOES NOT WORK! I may not be doing something (I could not find it), but in this consideration, I'm wondering WHY it's left there? Does it work for 144. Can I FIND 144?

Thanks, Lizzie's mum

An alternative method for manual transfer between Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers

This section assumes you have a default Windows installation and will work on computers upgraded to Windows 10 from previous Windows versions.

   Locate the master profile folder on the source computer as above.
   Locate the master profile folder on the destination computer as above.
   Note out of interest that your username (indicated by ~ below) on the two computers might be different due to legacy issues, but it will make no difference with a manual transfer as below.
   Close Thunderbird in both computers.
   On the source computer, copy the Thunderbird folders in both Windows(C:)/Users/~/AppData/Roaming and Windows(C:)/Users/~/AppData/Local to your transfer media, in separate folders so you do not overwrite them.
   On the destination computer, remove (or rename if you need a data backup or to preserve an old profile) any Thunderbird folders in the destination folders Windows(C:)/Users/~/AppData/Roaming and Windows(C:)/Users/~/AppData/Local directories.
   Copy from your transfer media the correct Thunderbird folders into the two folders above to replace the ones you have removed or renamed.
   Restart Thunderbird on the destination computer and test it, noting that your inbox tab should be identical to source, but that other tabs may have opened with Thunderbird messages.

Hello, When I first built this Linux Mint laptop I just grabbed the first Thunderbird install I saw, never realizing it would never update, now understaning how this works I want to install the flatpack version so I can be up to date. what is the best way to attack this, can I just install the flatpack and it will capture all my mailbox settings or do I need to start from scratch?

Thanks in advance Guy

My bookmarks in Chrome do not import into Firefox. I've Tried importing right from the Chrome browser and importing with an HTML file. No success with my bookmarks. I was able to import an extension, but I deleted it as that isn't my focus. I've checked the HTML file and it does have content (viewed in NotePad). I've looked in all the Bookmark options, but nothing imported there. I paused my NordVPN, no change. I've rebooted my desktop nothing changed. I'm running the latest updated version of Win 11.

Please advise.