Updated my wireless driver and started getting a message pop up saying that my google has detected that cookies are not set in my browser (fire fox)

Your wireless driver has got nothing to do with cookies.

and it's still coming up after I allow them for gmail. This stop's the connection in Thunderbird.

Your browser cookies have got nothing to do with Thunderbird.

If your Gmail account is IMAP, and if you set the authentication type to 'OAuth2' you may need to allow cookies for https://accounts.google.com in Thunderbird.

Found the problem after deleting all of the Gmail accounts in Thunderbird and then bringing them back as new email accounts. Gmail turns on blocking by default in your email accounts saying that a less secure app is trying to log on to these accounts. Sign in directly to your gmail accounts https://accounts.google.com/ and change it back to allow them. christ1 you were right about the problem being in googles email and not withing fire fox as the google popup claimed. Thank you. And I hope that this info helps others with this problem.

What it is is the fact oAuth2.0 is the default sign in for Gmail and it requires cookies. In Thunderbird not Firefox.

If you use oAuth2.0 you do not need to allow less secure apps. But you do need cookies.