Accessing Thunderbird via Firefox (or other email programs too)

We had an email today from a listener who was looking for a way to access his Thunderbird (email program) from Mozilla Firefox. This is a feature that was found in previous versions of Firefox but is strangely absent from Firefox 2.0.

We found a nice little extension that resolves this problem .

This extension brings back the email button that was an option for your Firefox toolbar. Clicking this button invokes whatever your default email program happens to be.

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2 Responses to “Accessing Thunderbird via Firefox (or other email programs too)”

1. Anonymous says:

   April 8, 2007 at 8:35 pm

   I get a 404 error message.

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2. Rick says:

   April 8, 2007 at 10:33 pm

   The original Firefox add-on we had linked dropped from some reason. I have re-linked a new extension that will create the button you are looking for to access your email program.

   Reply