Thunderbird addons

opethdisciple · 8 Jun 2012 at 11:58

At my compony we have a few developement macs in use.

We use Thunderbird as our mail client.

I have been having an ongoing battle with one of the macs, in which, you can download the addons in thunderbird via the addons manager, it installs, say thunderbird needs to restart to install, you restart, but it hasnt installed.

This has been going on for months and months.

Same thing, wont install.

The second mac, I was setting it up for a user, downloaded the addons, it installed, restarted, same ****. Hasnt installed.

WTF do i have to do to get addons installed in thunderbird on the mac.

I'v tried, all the combinations i can think of. Manual install, automatic install, restarting the computer etc, you name it, I'v done it, same outcme.

Addons sists in the addons list, saying it needs a restart to install.

I thought Macs where meant to be user freindly? :confused:

roll1later · 8 Jun 2012 at 13:37

Could it be that the add-ons aren't compatible with the version of Thunderbird you are running? I think Mozilla have a help section on their site, might be worth a look.

Good luck with sorting it
Paul

opethdisciple · 8 Jun 2012 at 14:18

Possibly yes.

But under windows, Thunderbird promts you with the message that the addon is incompatible.

I dont get a prompt, in Mac OSX.

I'l look in to it, but have been lookingin to it for months now....

Also why would thunderbird offer me an addon thats incompatible.

All we are talking about is lighting and britsh dictionary.

roll1later · 8 Jun 2012 at 14:32

Also why would thunderbird offer me an addon thats incompatible.

I don't run Thunderbird but I get a similar thing with Firefox, it keeps telling me that there is a new version of Firefox to download and install but the new version will only run on Intel Macs, I'm running a G5 tower which won't run the newer version, so I was guessing your issues were similar. Looks like, with Firefox anyway, the browser is just checking on the version number and if there's a newer version it blindly tells you there's an update available without having the capabilities of checking the system it's running on. I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of it all though, good luck.

cheers
Paul