Change Thunderbird Start Page
If you are tired of seeing the default Welcome to Thunderbird Start Page, we can easily customize it to your liking.
On the Thunderbird Toolbar go to Tools \ Options and under the General tab you can either uncheck the Thunderbird Start Page so nothing comes up, or put in a different default website address you want to display. In fact if you were using Thunderbird for your business mail you could point it to a network location such as a SharePoint page and have company information displayed.
When your finished click OK and restart Thunderbird to display the new Start Page.
This article was originally written on 07/8/08
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As soon as I read this I had a great idea. Set Google Calandar as my Thunderbird start page. But alas it did not work. When I fired Thunderbird back up all I got was the Google sign in screen and when I entered my email and password it launched in Firefox. Any hacks to make Google Calandar load correctly in Thunderbird?
Joe
You can try the Thunderbrowse extension at http://thunderbrowse.com/
It lets the preview pane also function as a tabbed browser.
Getting closer. This time when I logged in it took me to a new page within Thunderbird. But the page displayed said "Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on. [?]" So now the question is how do you turn on cookies in Thunderbird using the Thunderbrowse extension?
Thanks
I was searching it for a long time.
Thank you very Much.
For the cookies you can download the extention CS Lite at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5207 and set the cookies to be allowed globally in CS Lite Options -> Global Tab -> Global Cookie Behaviour box.
Thanks for the suggestion jd2066. However I gave it a try and it didn't work for me. That is a firefox extension and I need one for Thunderbird. Have you got this to work for yourself?
It appears I linked to the wrong one. The Thunderbird version of that extension is at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/5207
I've done this and got cookies to work for some sites.
Shoot, it still doesn't work for me for Google. So disappointing. Thanks anyway for your suggestions.
Yeah, this can be a combo of reasons:
A) Google serves bad lots html when it fails (think redirects every 0.5 seconds [this is the most common]). Some points it will use a sneaky tactic that isn't supported so it can launch in firefox.
B) Thunderbird makes https cookies hard to work with.
C) ThunderBrowse just has problems with what Calender is trying to do.
Most likely, it's A. In which case, login, then when it fails, login again. Then go to google.com yourself. You should be logged in.
No luck. When I go back to the google page and try to sign in a second time I am taken to the URL http://www.theedge.com/. I have no idea why.
That was due to a ThunderBrowse bug in rendering https. It's fixed in the more recent versions
Good post, admin.