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Thunderbird windows too big for screen

  • Cavab yoxdur
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I was trying to help a friend set up her Gmail account in Thunderbird and after putting in all the settings, a window popped up asking me to allow Thunderbird to access Gmail, but the button to select allow was at the bottom of the window, below the bottom of my screen, and there was no way to scroll all the way down. I also was unable to make the window smaller. So I was unable to set up the account.

I figured this was a problem caused by Google, because I had set up an account with another provider (Sonic) without trouble. But when I tried to work with the address book for that account, I ran into problems with the Thunderbird window being too wide for the screen, and it was very difficult to access buttons there too. I had to move the entire window sideways off the screen, and extend the window even further to find the edit button. I never did find a save button that I assume is on the bottom of that window.

On my own system I still use a very old version of Thunderbird, and never run into such problems, but this newest version that I downloaded a few days ago looks and functions quite different. Also my friend is on a Mac, and my own system is a PC, so perhaps the Mac version functions differently than the one for PC?

I would appreciate any insight to adjust the windows to a workable size on the screen, and to set up my friend's Gmail account.

Thanks so much.

I was trying to help a friend set up her Gmail account in Thunderbird and after putting in all the settings, a window popped up asking me to allow Thunderbird to access Gmail, but the button to select allow was at the bottom of the window, below the bottom of my screen, and there was no way to scroll all the way down. I also was unable to make the window smaller. So I was unable to set up the account. I figured this was a problem caused by Google, because I had set up an account with another provider (Sonic) without trouble. But when I tried to work with the address book for that account, I ran into problems with the Thunderbird window being too wide for the screen, and it was very difficult to access buttons there too. I had to move the entire window sideways off the screen, and extend the window even further to find the edit button. I never did find a save button that I assume is on the bottom of that window. On my own system I still use a very old version of Thunderbird, and never run into such problems, but this newest version that I downloaded a few days ago looks and functions quite different. Also my friend is on a Mac, and my own system is a PC, so perhaps the Mac version functions differently than the one for PC? I would appreciate any insight to adjust the windows to a workable size on the screen, and to set up my friend's Gmail account. Thanks so much.

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