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Disable the splash screen for Thunderbird Portable 2nd Profile App

Submitted by Flipscript on September 13, 2019 - 1:09pm

I would be thankful if anyone could help me out and tell me how to disable the splash screen for the Thunderbird Portable 2nd Profile App.

Neither exists a corresponding ini-file in the directory "Other\Source" nor does using such a file in the conventional suggested way work.

2 profiles that use the same general thunderbird settings

Submitted by Flipscript on September 11, 2019 - 10:29am

Hi everybody,

i have set up two thunderbird profiles, one that’s used by me (profile 1) and the other one used by my girlfriend (profile 2).

I take care of all programs and keep them up to date in our household. Unfortunately, when I install addons, do improvements, adjustments or fixes to thunderbird for profile 1 I have to do the same (often fiddly and pesky) process for profile 2 so that both thunderbird profiles benefit from my changes and stay on the same level.

Swapping profiles between TB "Portable" and "Portable 2nd Profile"

Submitted by MrArtist on September 10, 2019 - 9:47am

Hi,
I set up a second TB profile using the PortableApps "2nd profile" version alongside my initial portable version and now would like to swap the profiles between the two so that I can eventually remove the 2nd Profile install entirely.

The main reason for setting up the 2nd profile was so I could convert my mailboxes to MailDir from MBox which was less appropriate for using TB via the cloud (OneDrive).

Thunderbird portable.Windows XP

Submitted by JoeGons on August 17, 2019 - 8:46pm

Good Day All.
Thunderbird portable.Windows XP
Using POP3.
I travel between two locations.
I have a Windows 10 64bit desktop at each location.
I have Thunderbird Portable on a Thumb Drive.
At each location I just plug in the Thumb Drive and launch Thunderbird portable.
Has worked well.
I also update the local machine at each location with SyncToy by syncing the “Mail” folder.
Two days ago when I arrived at one of the locations, my Desktop died shortly after boot-up.
DEAD!!

Thunderbird starts with top of its window out of computer screen

Submitted by sukhoi47 on July 28, 2019 - 2:10am

Hi,

After an upgrade 2 or 3 months ago, the Thunderbird portable started to start-up with part of its window out of the computer screen.
After that I upgraded it 1 or 2 times, but the problem persist. Today I upgraded to version 60.8.0 (32-bit) (for Windows), but the problem, again, persist.

You can see how Thunderbird opens:
http://data.neogennium.com/tmp/tb_60.8.portable.win32.bug.jpg

Leftovers in AppData

Submitted by Emka on July 19, 2019 - 12:39am

v60.8: In AppData, I get the folders Local\Thunderbird\updates and Roaming\Thunderbird\Pending Pings. Both empty. I have diabled updates in Thunderbird. No idea what the second one is exacly there for.
I use the following add-ons: Lightning, Manually Sort Folders, ImportExportTools.
Thunderbird Portable is located on a different partition than the system (and AppData). I never had an installed version of Thunderbird on this machine.
Shouldn't the launcher take care of these folders?
Am I doing anything wrong or is that known?

Just a heads up for users of GnuPG

Submitted by Freehunter on July 4, 2019 - 1:33pm

I'm not an expert, just passing this along as a word of caution.

This is probably not a problem for causal users of GnuGP. Temporarily it would be advisable NOT to refresh certificates from the SKS keyserver network. Particularly if your keyring has GnuPG contributors Robert J. Hansen (rjh) or Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) who were victims of a certificate spamming attack.

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