Storm wrote:
> I just (finally) moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0, but 2.0 didn't keep my
> toolbar button for launching Thunderbird. I just spent 45 minutes
> searching the Firefox and T-bird extensions site, and can't find it
> anywhere. Does it still exist? Why isn't it a standard feature for
> integrating FF, T-Bird, and Sunbird? Is there a Sunbird toolbar launch
> button for FF?

You can use the GetMail add-on at
http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html
to launch Thunderbird from Firefox.
The Launchy extension might work for both Sunbird
and Thunderbird (I've never used it so don't really know)

Ann

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Storm wrote:
> I just (finally) moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0, but 2.0 didn't keep my
> toolbar button for launching Thunderbird. I just spent 45 minutes
> searching the Firefox and T-bird extensions site, and can't find it
> anywhere. Does it still exist? Why isn't it a standard feature for
> integrating FF, T-Bird, and Sunbird? Is there a Sunbird toolbar launch
> button for FF?

A Mail button in Firefox was deemed superfluous, as there are so many
ways of calling your mail application, for example the Quick Launch bar
in Windows, the Dock in Mac OSX, etc. I look at it as toolbar clutter,
but, if you really need it:

http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html

There was an extension that allowed external applications buttons, which
was bumped to work in FF 2.0, though I don't know how far:

http://www.ironspider.ca/browsers/ex...m#externalapps

The only place I found this handy was when working on a host machine,
using Firefox Portable. It was kind of nice to be able to call on the
other portable applications with a Firefox toolbar, thought the Portable
Apps Launcher program makes it superfluous. It sits in the Systray,
waiting to open your other apps.

When working on your own machine, use the Quick Launch bar, that's what
its there for.

In another thread , I think I pointed you to the directions for bumping
old extensions manually.

Lee

Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Storm wrote:
>> I just (finally) moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0, but 2.0 didn't keep my
>> toolbar button for launching Thunderbird. I just spent 45 minutes
>> searching the Firefox and T-bird extensions site, and can't find it
>> anywhere. Does it still exist? Why isn't it a standard feature for
>> integrating FF, T-Bird, and Sunbird? Is there a Sunbird toolbar launch
>> button for FF?
>
> A Mail button in Firefox was deemed superfluous, as there are so many
> ways of calling your mail application, for example the Quick Launch bar
> in Windows, the Dock in Mac OSX, etc. I look at it as toolbar clutter,
> but, if you really need it:
>
> http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html
>
> There was an extension that allowed external applications buttons, which
> was bumped to work in FF 2.0, though I don't know how far:
>
> http://www.ironspider.ca/browsers/ex...m#externalapps
>
> The only place I found this handy was when working on a host machine,
> using Firefox Portable. It was kind of nice to be able to call on the
> other portable applications with a Firefox toolbar, thought the Portable
> Apps Launcher program makes it superfluous. It sits in the Systray,
> waiting to open your other apps.
>
> When working on your own machine, use the Quick Launch bar, that's what
> its there for.
>
> In another thread , I think I pointed you to the directions for bumping
> old extensions manually.
>
> Lee
Thanks to both of you.