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Unable to start thunderbird after update today 2 May 2025

Submitted by noospam on May 1, 2025 - 5:46pm

Thunderbird portable have always been solid for me until this morning. I have always updated to newer versions when prompted and been good except this morning. The installation stalled and my laptop froze up. So I restarted my laptop and tried to run TB but I get these error messages. It did not load at all. Can't seemed to attach image here to show error messages. So error status is 0xc0000020 and "Couldn't load XPCOM".

Importing data into a Windows Thunderbird installation / Portable version as default mail program

Submitted by xprt007 on April 1, 2025 - 7:47am

Hi there
I have been using a portable version of Thunderbird, on partition D for a long time, but because I find no way of making it the default Windows mail program, a feature that I often need, I have installed a local version but having problems with importing the data from the portable version, because it is well over the 2GB, actually around 6GB, with many accounts, too cumbersome to setup anew, etc.
I see instructions for importing data into the portable version, but not the other way round.

Can't open attached files directly

Submitted by coffent on January 20, 2025 - 10:57am

When I try to open an attached file in an email message (say "Example.pdf") I get this error message, or something similar:

"An error occurred while opening a document from the file:
C:\Users\CHS2\AppData\Local\Temp\nsnD5B3.tmp\ContainedTemp\pid-20128\Example.pdf"

Based on ChatGPT, I tried adding a line like:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "D:\\cDat\\Programs\\TBird\\Temp");

but Thunderbird Portable overwrites the line if it's in prefs.js and ignores it if it's in user.js

[Bug] Task bar functions in WIN 10 (right-click) refer to an unconfigured account

Submitted by ASDEF on December 31, 2024 - 11:35am

Hi,

WIN 10, 64-bit, 128.5.2.esr, USB flash drive

2 tasks are offered:
“Write new message”
“Open address book”

The first opens a new message window for an unconfigured account.
The second opens an address book of an unconfigured account.

Thunderbird 128.4.1 going straight to the Crash Reporter on Windows 11 but works fine on Windows 10

Submitted by pbajoswb on November 12, 2024 - 9:37am

The other week my computer at work was upgraded to Windows 11 after I had issues with it trying to boot.

About the same time I also got the latest update for Portable Thunderbird to update it to 128.4.1 on my portable hard-drive.

Now when I try to run Portable Thunderbird on that work computer the app window tries to display but only shows all white and then the "Thunderbird Crash Reporter" dialog opens after about 5 seconds.

Now taking the hard-drive home. I plug it into my laptop with Windows 10 running on it and everything opens normally.

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