Re: Thunderbird oddity

On 31 Dec 2012 19:58, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

Earlier this evening I fat-fingered my mouse and accidentally exited
Thunderbird. No big deal. Just restarted it.

Except that two instances of TBird started. Well, maybe I triple- or
quadruple-clicked. So I X-ed one of them; both instances closed.
Started it again being really, really careful not to overdo it. Got
two instances again. <<SNIP>>

From news.mozilla.org mozilla.support.thunderbird with
Subject: 2 instances of TB opening
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On 01 Jan 2013 06:04, john.hawley.1949@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

SOLVED:

On Friday, December 21, 2012 9:27:11 AM UTC-5, l.c.frase wrote:

On Monday, 2 August 2010 23:37:56 UTC+7, OldGringo wrote:

For the past few days when I open TB it opens 2 instances,
not sure what I have done to cause this. Is there a setting
within TB that would cause this to happen?

if anyone has the same problem who isn't using the minimize to
tray add-on.

File -> Close

Doing this a few times will fix it.

Finally--a simple solution that works. Many thanks.

Using the X in the upper right hand of the window to close one
instance will always close both. If you close each separately
with the file--close option thereafter clicking on the
thunderbird icon will only start one instance.

any idea why two instances are starting in the first place, and
why using file--close works?