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FireTray
FireTray is a Thunderbird1) tray minimizer extension for Linux.
Main features:
- minimize Thunderbird to the tray
- show number of unread messages
- hide/show via mousewheel and/or click
- custom icon possible
Installation
Simply use the default installation method. See http://code.google.com/p/firetray/downloads/ to get the .xpi
. Do not use the Mozilla Add-on page because it does not get updated regularly!
If you are updating GNOME (e.g. when installing a new version of Ubuntu-Linux) your installed FireTray may be incompatible to it, preventing your Thunderbird to start at all (and therefore you can't install a new version). If this is the case, use the following way to solve your problem:
- Start Thunderbird in safe mode via terminal:
thunderbird -safe-mode
- Uninstall Firetray.
- Start Thunderbird the normal way and install the newest version