If you use Thunderbird on Windows, you may be familiar with sending Thunderbird to the system tray (the notification area) so it keeps running in the background. Starting with Thunderbird 154, the way this works has changed – instead of minimizing to the tray, Thunderbird now moves to the tray when you close it. This article explains the change and shows you how to turn the feature on.
Note: This feature applies only to Thunderbird 154 and later on Windows 10 and 11. It is not available on macOS or Linux.
Holy gracious smokes… such an important feature… some used to implement via workarounds as custom hooks in DEs and/or add-ons…
I am literally trained myself to press on “Minimize” just for this program, so to not close it accidentally in an environment I haven’t configured (e.g., someone’s else machine).
And not to mention cases when tray icons do not update on process’s terminated automatically in certain environments sometimes, keeping it with a ghost icon indicating as “running”…
Though, no support for the Linux yet, the OS I’ve been into for more than two decades now, it at least has a progress…
Thank you… heartfelt…
Honestly the only thing holding up progress is an engineers time to work on it. I started this project some time ago and then would love to find time to come back to it.
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