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Thunderbird is stuck on mnimize

jlsiegle

I cannot fully open Thunderbird. The icon in the task bar opens only a small box. The prog ram does not fully open.

I cannot fully open Thunderbird. The icon in the task bar opens only a small box. The prog ram does not fully open.

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Does the toolbar show a '-' & '+' sign (along w/ an 'x')? Try minimizing to task bar, then R click Tb icon, then 'Restore'.

Under Menu (3 bars icon) > View > Layout, try "Classic."

Do you have any theme / Tb UI modifications, e.g. using a /chrome/userChrome.css file, etc? (try disabling - rename it, adding ".bak" to end of name); restart Tbird.

Other addons installed? Try disabling them.

Try 1 or 2 other Tbird themes (one of included in Tb installation). Menu > Tools > Addons Themes. Should be a few shipped w/ Tbird.

If don't work, could try creating a new profile. To test, have to copy over data for at least 1 of your accts to new profile.

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