Thunderbird Portable

Is there a method of forcing Portable Thunderbird to open HTML links in Portable Firefox instead of the default Windows browser.

I'm running both Thunderbird & Firefox on a USB drive, on a PC at work, and don't want to use the installed IE as my browser. DUe to user restrictions I can't (and don't want to) chanmge the default browser.

When I use PTB on a thumbdrive, does the antivirus program installed on the PC check the messages?

any sensitive emails stored in folders etc. easily viewable and revealing of my account numbers? If so, what can I do about this?

thanks,

Rick Warburton

First I want to describe my circumstances. I use portable Thunderbird on some Windows Computers and even at home on my Ubuntu Linux mashine (using only the profils, works fine).
Everything workes perfect (means: thanks for all that nice portable programs!).
Now I have a T-Mobile MDA (PDA with Windows Mobile). I want to synchronise it with the data in my portable thunderbird profile.
I have tried using activesync with birdiesync. The problem is, that you cant define the right paths for the syncronisation with the portable app.
Maybe someone knows a different way to syncronise a PDA with portable thunderbird, or had success on trying to pair the devices with birdiesync. (with the normal Thunderbird everthing works fine!)

I run portable Thunderbird from an iPodShuffle on OSX. The application hangs everytime the computer wakes up from sleep, regardless on which Mac I try it on. Is there a way around this?

thanks in advance

can i use Portable Thunderbird data into standard Thunderbird ?
It's so important to me cuz i'm using Linux OS

This topic must have been covered before...
Is there any reason why Portable Thunderbird should not be used as the desktop mail app? I support a social service agency where people move around a lot, and it would be a lot easier to just move one folder to have their mail follow them.
Is there something that regular T-bird does that Portable T-bird cannot do?

How do I go about upgrading from 1.502 to 1.504 Thunderbird I have got Thunderbird installed on my USB only recently and it is already asking to upgrade to 1.504 but portable Apps has only 1.502 available.

Any help for a newby?

Hello All,

I have a question regarding the Data directories of the PortableApps applications... I know that keeping the path names for everything relative is the major bonus with these applications, however, I have a situation where I would like to move the data directory to an absolute path. Is this possible?

My reasoning is this...

I have a usb key which I carry everywhere with PortableFirefox and PortableThunderbird, also I have an encrypted file which mounts as a drive when decrypted (using TrueCrypt software, which is free open-source and excellent). This file decrpyts always to the same drive letter (x:) and holds personal information. At present I can move emails to the by changing the 'local directory' in account settings but still there are address books and more concerningly openPGP secret keys within the data directory of the unencrypted section of the usb drive. The same occurs with PortableFirefox where Internet History, passwords and cookies all remain accesible without decrypting.

hope the answer to this is not to technical or convoluted;

when I set in the prefrences to make portable thunderbird the default email client, it makes a reference in the startup menu (XP) but when clicked it wants to setup from scratch. How do I make it the default client on the desktop (pointing to the portable setup (if you follow ).

My hope was to be able to have the portable setup as the default mail browser on the desktop and just copy the folder to a USB pen when I want it to be portable, is that possible or will I have to run syncs with a default & portable install (I geuss thats what some posts refer to)