Thunderbird Portable

When I put in www.duckduckgo.com as my start page,
then ok then restart thunderbird portable it reverts to google.ca
it will not save no matter what i do.
The same thing happened with futureshop.
how do i change this permanently?

My thunderbird is around 450mb. Is that a normal size? It doesn't have any emails in the local folder. What are the size for other folks?

Why only GnuPG 1.4.x for Thunderbird Portable?

In 2006 GnuPG 2.0.x was released as a stable version (source: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html) - nearly 8 years ago.
The Enigmail Project recommends GnuPG version 2.x in its documentation: https://www.enigmail.net/documentation/
And - furthermore - it is possible to create a portable Gpg4win version with GnuPG 2.0.x since version 2.2.0 (released 2013-08-20).

Is there any plan to release "GPG for Thunderbird Portable" with GnuPG 2.x in near future?

Hasn't anyone noticed that the progress bar you know the little blue bar that goes from left to right when checking for emails and or downloading them inside the status bar has been broken since I'm guessing version 18? It's as it were out of bound.

Image of the issue.
http://imagesup.net/?di=12140253615516

edit:
A wile back I gave a fresh version a go and to my surprise the problem was gone, so updated again after that but the problem is back in versions 38.2.0 and up.

I am not able to add any of my email accounts on TB portable. They don't recognise them. Normal TB works just fine. Can anyone help?

Lightning makes trouble when used with Dropbox.

I have installed Lightning in the Portable Thunderbird. That worked!

But I wanted to share my calendar with someone so I put in on my dropbox and shared it with that person. That was leading to conflicts... damn

Now I tried another way. I copied the whole folder. Everyone was now using his own files. But here we also getting conflicts...

This morning, when I opened Thunderbird portable, I got a pop-up window asking if I would like a new e-mail address. The pop-up had a pre-selected (checked box) for something called gandi.net. I selected the button labeled "Skip this and use my existing email". I then got an e-mail account set-up pop-up, on which I clicked the "Cancel" button. I was then in Thunderbird with none of my previous e-mails present, and no account information. Yesterday, Thunderbird was just fine. How do I get my e-mails back? I have hundreds of them.

I'm currently running version 24.4.0. I currently have the message pane showing and my Thunderbird settings such that a new message is marked read as soon as I select it. One thing I've noticed since this latest update is that sometimes when I select an unread message, its state gets changed to read and then reverts to unread.

I definitely didn't have this problem with previous versions of Thunderbird Portable.

As a part of the new security features of OSX Mavericks, it seems to run a "one time" check when you install new apps for things you want the app to access. In this case, it runs the check for portable thunderbird to access contacts and it asks me if I want to grant the application permission to access contacts. Normally, this is a one-time thing, but because portable thunderbird is "new" every time it is mounted on the drive, it runs this check every time.

I have run Thunderbird portable for some years now without issue. I have about 20 email addresses and 3 years worth of emails. It lives on an external drive.
Recently my laptop died and I luckily had not long backed up to the external drive.
I've got my new laptop now however when I click to start Thunderbird it acts as if it is a new program, with no record of my emails, my accounts or anything. What am I doing wrong?