Transferring Thunderbird to new laptop

When I downloaded the Thunderbird app to my new laptop and opened it, it already had a fortnight's worth of recent messages in the Inbox, plus many of my Sent messages. H… (read more)

When I downloaded the Thunderbird app to my new laptop and opened it, it already had a fortnight's worth of recent messages in the Inbox, plus many of my Sent messages. However, the remainder of the Inbox, dating back to 2010, was not there, neither were my address books. Why didn't a clean copy of the app download so I can import my Profiles? In addition, my old laptop uses POP incoming, but the new laptop seems to be configured to IMAP. Is this a problem, and if so, which should I choose for the new laptop?

Asked by cmfindlay 3 hours ago

Transfer to new computer - 115.18.0 to 115.18.0esr

New computer Ubuntu 24.04 Mate, older Ubuntu 22.04 Cinnamon. Following support transfer directions (open Thunderbird on new PC, close it, paste a copy of older .thunderb… (read more)

New computer Ubuntu 24.04 Mate, older Ubuntu 22.04 Cinnamon. Following support transfer directions (open Thunderbird on new PC, close it, paste a copy of older .thunderbird from USB stick to .thunderbird on new, over write), when I open Thunderbird no accounts are shown only the create account screen. I find no update path for older Thunderbird. New PC came with 128 esr but I found a tarball of 115 .18.0, installed it and followed transfer directions with the same results. Seems like the esr version uses a profile ending with esr and ignores my older one. What are my options for transferring 20 years of significant messages? The hard way might be to identify the account specific files in my older profile and copy them into the new esr profile...

Asked by rickmozilla 1 day ago

Last reply by rickmozilla 4 hours ago

Open with blank page not working

Have just installed TB for the first time (replacing WLM) and am very happy with it. My only problem is that the option to open with a blank page is not working despite l… (read more)

Have just installed TB for the first time (replacing WLM) and am very happy with it. My only problem is that the option to open with a blank page is not working despite leaving the checkbox unchecked. I've tried checking and unchecking but it makes no difference, it always opens with the full setup options displayed. Is there another way to have TB open with a blank page?

Asked by nmrn2012 3 days ago

Last reply by nmrn2012 9 hours ago

Finish setup

I am prompted to FINISH SETUP. When I click on the button a pop up asking me to FINISH SETTING UP FIREFOX by completing 5 steps. All are checked. Nothing happens nor is t… (read more)

I am prompted to FINISH SETUP. When I click on the button a pop up asking me to FINISH SETTING UP FIREFOX by completing 5 steps. All are checked. Nothing happens nor is there a button to execute the operation. How do I complete the SETUP?

Asked by JAMES 14 hours ago

Allowing pop-ups on my Android phone

I have some websites that require pop-ups. I cannot get them to work in Firefox on my Android phone. Google searches reference a setting under "privacy and security" wh… (read more)

I have some websites that require pop-ups. I cannot get them to work in Firefox on my Android phone. Google searches reference a setting under "privacy and security" where I should be able to allow pop-ups in general or for certain URLs only, but I don't have that setting option.

I have Firefox version 139.4 if that helps.

Thanks in advance, Paul

Asked by Paul Scannell 1 week ago

Last reply by Paul Scannell 16 hours ago

Images versus Links in body of emails

Hello Following a recent thundebird update, the body of certain emails contains a list of links to images rather than the images themselves that appeared before. The scre… (read more)

Hello Following a recent thundebird update, the body of certain emails contains a list of links to images rather than the images themselves that appeared before. The screen looks crowded, confusing and unattractive. How can I revert to the old, much more attractive appearance ? I have searched but can find no help. Regards

Asked by pyor66 16 hours ago

Cannot Find Pocket or TenTabs Icons.

Like the title says. I used to have a Pocket icon. Yes, I know it's going away. I'd like to use the TenTabs icon. Where is it? And if you tell me it's on the "Customiz… (read more)

Like the title says.

I used to have a Pocket icon. Yes, I know it's going away.

I'd like to use the TenTabs icon. Where is it?

And if you tell me it's on the "Customize Toolbar", I can tell you that, no, it is not.

Help?

Asked by moonpupy 18 hours ago

Hidding sub folders

I have a lot of folders in my account and most have sub folders. When I search the folders, it shows all the sub folders making selection a long task. Is it possible t… (read more)

I have a lot of folders in my account and most have sub folders. When I search the folders, it shows all the sub folders making selection a long task. Is it possible to hide these sub folders as you can in GMail for android and TB for PCs.

Asked by tony.ainscough 1 day ago

Can't configure New Release 139_0_2 with Classic View from Release 128.11

My desktop computer died, so I needed to copy all my data files from backup (which worked fine) and then install all the apps that I regularly run on my laptop. When I … (read more)

My desktop computer died, so I needed to copy all my data files from backup (which worked fine) and then install all the apps that I regularly run on my laptop. When I installed Thunderbird, I got the latest Release 139.02. It behaves very differently from what I think is called the "Classic View" that was running on my Desktop. I REALLY hate it, but can't figure out how to set the Thunderbird parameters to do that. My problems include:

-- Overview of Thunderbird "Views". I can't find any documentation that explains [a] the various viewing options that Thunderbird offers and [b] EXACTLY how to set them.

-- Release Notes. I haven't found any release notes to explain when/why a major change to view was done.

-- Periodically, even for same release, Thunderbird CHANGES my parameter settings. Most annoying is changing the General Message-List settings to "Show Only Display Names For People in My Address Book". I live in a retirement community where many husbands & wives share the same Email address. With this setting, Thunderbird shows the name associate with the first message I received from this Email address. So the heading doesn't show which person actually sent it (although I can make a good guess when Thunderbird is telling me it came from a dead person. [g]

Is there ANY way I can get Release 139.0.2 to display messages the way I've been seeing them for at least 10 years? I REALLY need help. (If I can't get Thunderbird to behave the way I want, seem like I might as well switch to reading/writing messages directly from Google Gmail web site. It's equally lacking in documentation, but I suppose that eventually I could figure it out.)

Thanks in advance for any help anybody can offer.GMail, I'd seriously consider switch to using Gmail directly without Thunderbird.)

Asked by Mandy W 1 day ago

Empty Trash/Compact driving me crazy - "The messages could not be moved or copied to folder xxxxx because writing to folder failed. To gain disk space, from the file menu, first choose Empty Trash, and then choose Compact Folders, and then try again."

I'm in the process of cleaning up Thunderbird e-mail before moving to a new computer. I started with 11,593 e-mails in my Inbox and 7,799 e-mails in my Sent folder. I'm… (read more)

I'm in the process of cleaning up Thunderbird e-mail before moving to a new computer. I started with 11,593 e-mails in my Inbox and 7,799 e-mails in my Sent folder. I'm now down to 7,634 in my Inbox and 4,965 in my Sent folder. I've allocated 2 weeks for this process and found that it's taking me about 3 hours per day to meet my daily goals. I'm finding that I'm spending at LEAST half the time responding to "Empty-Trash/Compact-folders" requests. There are times I can delete 50 e-mails at a time without getting a request. Other times I will try to delete ten e-mails and get the request. With the old version of Thunderbird I could literally delete hundreds of e-mails at a time. Can you help? Russ Bukwa Yardley, PA ps. I have intentionally given you specific numbers. Based on my software- and test-engineering experience, I speculate you need to create a stress test to solve this nagging problem.

Asked by newdayrj 2 weeks ago

Last reply by newdayrj 1 day ago

Transferring passwords from google to firefox

The instruction FireFox provided state that I should go to the chrome menu, i.e., the three dots. From there, FireFox instructed me to go to the passwords and autofill o… (read more)

The instruction FireFox provided state that I should go to the chrome menu, i.e., the three dots. From there, FireFox instructed me to go to the passwords and autofill option, and that once I select the passwords and autofill option a link to download the passwords will appear. No link to download the passwords appeared. How do I move my passwords from chrome to FireFox?

Asked by Walter Scott 2 days ago

How to disable page switching on mouse sidebuttons.

There is a webside called Geo FS, it's flight simulator. And i really want to set side buttons on my mouse for throttle. But i cannot do it. The browser just changing web… (read more)

There is a webside called Geo FS, it's flight simulator. And i really want to set side buttons on my mouse for throttle. But i cannot do it. The browser just changing web pages all the time. Is there any way to change it? If no, then devs please add a way to customise those buttons to add no action to them in the browser. Thanks.

Asked by valentinmelnickov 2 days ago

How to make the width of folder pane wider than the system default width

Regarding: Thunderbird Version 128.11.1esr   Please tell me how to make folder pane wider than the system default width of the vertical layout. The reason of this questi… (read more)

Regarding: Thunderbird Version 128.11.1esr   Please tell me how to make folder pane wider than the system default width of the vertical layout. The reason of this question is that I cannot see full of folder names under the system default width.

Asked by KS 4 days ago

Last reply by KS 2 days ago

Writing an email

When typing an email I would like to have it set so that at the start of each new sentence or paragraph it starts with a capital letter. Is there somewhere in Settings to… (read more)

When typing an email I would like to have it set so that at the start of each new sentence or paragraph it starts with a capital letter. Is there somewhere in Settings to allow me to achieve this?

Asked by jontowner 3 days ago