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Forcing Thunderbird portable to open Firefoxportable

Submitted by Smerk on January 6, 2009 - 10:37pm

Is it possible to do this?

I've tried modifying my user.js to force it (I've done somilar in the past on my linux boxes)by adding the lines:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe");

but this doesn't work Sad

Any suggestions?

mails lost after having copied TB-file

Submitted by psteffens on January 2, 2009 - 1:27pm

I'm using thunderbird 2.0.0.19 portable on my windows xp sp3. In order to archive I've copied my mail-file from 2008. I've changed the name of the copy into "2009" and cleaned up 90% of the old mails. Now I use the "2009"-file for the next year. If I have to check an old mail, i open the old "2008"-file. First it works - like in 2007, too. But after 4 hours (and compressing all sub-files) i can only read my mails from 2008 created until september. The mails from autumn > new year are invisible.

Thunderbird not starting after upgrade

Submitted by PollieXmas on December 30, 2008 - 4:47am

Hi Guys,

Thunderbird (TBP) did an automatic upgrade from v2.0.0.17 to v2.0.0.18 and now it does not start. The splash screen starts and then nothing else seems to happen.

When I tried re-installing TBP it mentioned that there is still an active/open version of TBP and thus cannot perform the install.

I'm planning to restart the pc so I can re-install but presume my problems are larger than a simple re-install.

Any ideas on where to start searching? I.e. can it be a corrupt prefs.js or index (msf) files?

Thanks
Paul

compacting on XP slow

Submitted by ottosykora on December 29, 2008 - 12:25pm

I have no idea what can cause this, but when I try compact folders when TB is sticked to an XP, it takes ages! Kind of 20 minutes for example.

Tha same job is done on an very slow laptop with w2k in seconds, on w98 similar even the usb port there is just 1.1 and all otherwise slow due to lack of ram.

Why does it take so long on the XP?

Chinese characters in mails vanish - PANIC!!!

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Submitted by portable_sunray on December 29, 2008 - 7:18am

Hi,
trying to switch from good old Outlook to Thunderbird Portable worked with just a few frictions. The import of quite a large amount of mails was possible only with tricks. So yesterday - all seemed to be fine. I was happy to find all my mails in TBP, I had the feeling to have mastered all the character encoding settings. TBP even shows Chinese characters in the subject line (that Outlook doesn't do).

Until today:
All the Chinese characters in my mails are gone and substituted by question marks.
Per-ma-nent-ly, as it seems.

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