Thunderbird opens twice always

I have Thunderbird on Ubuntu 12.04 and every time I open it, it loads twice. Two windows are opened.

To be clear, if I have Thunderbird closed (not minimized) and click on Mail, in the tray bar, it opens 2 main windows.

I have had installed several add-ons, including FireTray and "Minimize to Tray Revived", but now I have removed all of them. Actually I can disable all the add-ons and it still happening.

Any ideas?


Follow these steps:

  1. Disable "MinimizeToTray Plus" in menu "Tools/Add-Ons"
  2. Exit Thunderbird (be sure that the process is not running)
  3. Open Thunderbird (in my case, I had the same two windows problem the first time)
  4. Now Thunderbird runs without the MinimizeToTray Plus add-on
  5. Close one of the window
  6. Re-enable your "MinimizeToTray Plus" add-on
  7. Exit and restart

From this forum thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1962329


I had the same on one of the machine I manage and the solution was pretty simple in the end. On one of the two windows just do file->Close. It closes just that window and not the other. Then close TB and reopen it.

I've seen quite a lot of mention of problems with add-ons, but in this case there were none and none of the other solutions worked.

Ian


In preferences of FireTray (my version is 0.4.8) please check the field:

[] Only last window can be hidden