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Thunderbird pathes in mimeTypes.rdf are not portable

Submitted by campo felice on November 1, 2010 - 10:17am

I'am working with a self made Portable tree, e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, Launcher is PStart.

When I copy the tree to another location, all the Thunderbird path entries in mimeTypes.rdf, pointing to additional applications in portable tree serving attachments by double clicking are unlegal.

Reason is .. the entries are using absolute path names.

Although ... path entries in mimeTypes.rdf of Firefox are corrected (customized).

Question:
What mechanism does Firefox use to customize path entries in mimeTypes.rdf on the fly and ...
why doesn't so Thunderbird.

Portable TB on Wine/Linux

Submitted by muzel on October 31, 2010 - 5:46pm

Hi,

I've been using Portable TB 2.* on Linux/Wine, and it worked fine.
After upgrading to 3.1.6, mail texts (text-only, no html) became unreadable.
Not all mails, but a lot of them.
The settings are unchanged and still work on PTB 2.0.0.24.
Folder settings: UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 set as Standard Encoding, but "Standard ...zuweisen" ( e.g. "apply standard (?)") is not checked.
Usually that works, with the exception of mails with incorrect encoding. But here not only a few special characters are unreadable, but the whole message is scrambled.

TB 3.1.6 seems to leave data on clean PC

Submitted by Moonbase on October 30, 2010 - 4:27am

I used Thunderbird Portable 3.1.6 on a freshly installed Windows XP+SP3 PC (Dell, German) and now Windows’ logon screen shows "1506 ungelesene E-Mails" ("1506 unread emails") for the user I ran TB Portable under.

So it seems TB Portable somehow stores information on the PC, or leaves registry entries.

Could someone more knowledgeable please have a look into this?

Hint: Windows can be configured not to show the number of unread emails on the logon screen, so be sure to have this function enabled while testing.

Links does not open browser

Submitted by mlun on October 23, 2010 - 4:03am

When I hover over a link in TB the cursor changes to a hand and the link is displayed at the bottom of the screeen, but nothing happens when I press the link. I use TB-portable, Google Chrome portable and IE, and TB-Portable has been set a my default browser, but nothing happens. So everytime I have to open a link, I manually copy the link location into the browser and sees it this way. But that is starting to get a bit tedious Smile

TB 3.1.5.
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit

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