Once you select it, a brief description will appear on the right side - and include two buttons below.Note: you can ignore the 'Thunderbird (News)' entry in the listing, since we are only concerned with setting Thunderbird as default email client, not with newsgroups handling.

Once the list is complete, locate ' Thunderbird' in the alphabetized listing (note that it is listed under ' Thunderbird', not ' Mozilla Thunderbird'). Click on the first link, that reads ' Set your default programs', and Windows 7 will take a few seconds to find and show all applications on your computer that can be used as a default program of some kind.Clicking on it will open the Control Panel, with the ' Choose the programs that Windows uses by default' screen automatically selected, with four options / links.Click on the start menu, and type ' default program' inside the search field Windows 7 will display the matching results - click on the ' Default Programs' link, which should appear at or near the top:.I simply click on the sidebar as usual to launch Thunderbird.Change your default email program to Thunderbird in Windows 7įollow these steps to make Thunderbird your default mail handler:

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto application/x-xpinstall Įxec=/home/jay/thunderbird/thunderbird -compose Icon=/home/jay/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default128.png

local/share/applications/sktopĬomment=Send and receive mail with ThunderbirdĮxec=/home/jay/thunderbird/thunderbird %U I believe I compiled Thunderbird manually a while ago, since I wanted the newest version. I also tried sudo update-alternatives -allīut couldn't find options for mail or email. Strangely enough, under I may choose it as default Calendar. However, for some reason I can't choose it under default applications, it is greyed out. Since I mainly use Thunderbird 91.9.1 as mail client, I want to set it back as default. On Ubuntu 22.04LTS I tested a different mail client that set itself as default, now uninstalled.

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