Prevent FF from starting TB with profile manager
Using "email link" feature.
Regardless of how I set the email client to be Thunderbird, either in FF or in the OS (Win 7 64bit), TB starts up in the profile manager, and because TB is already running, I am unable to compose a message in the currently-used profile. I have 3 profiles defined, and I do not want to use either of the other 2.
I observe that the OS believes that the command line for running TB (from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Mozilla Thunderbird\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command ) is
"C:\pctools\Mozilla\Thunderbird\v38.4.0\thunderbird.exe" -osint -compose "%1"
That is the correct path on my installation.
If I manually run that command from a command window, for example:
"C:\pctools\Mozilla\Thunderbird\v38.4.0\thunderbird.exe" -osint -compose
or
"C:\pctools\Mozilla\Thunderbird\v38.4.0\thunderbird.exe" -osint -compose "body='foobar'"
then TB starts up with compose window as expected (including "foobar" in that case).
I cannot, however, without doing some surgery on the registry, determine what argument FF is sending to the OS for the "%1" argument to TB.
If I knew the latter, maybe I could fix this problem.
Or, maybe someone can tell me how to fix the problem at user level?
I recall that years ago I had a similar problem on an XP machine, but I am not sure how I fixed it. I think I may have copied an Outlook version of mapi.dll into the windows system directory. However, it appears that now TB and/or FF have their own version of mapi.dll (with a somewhat different name).
Krejt Përgjigjet (3)
moving to the Thunderbird queue since it involves Thunderbird more than Firefox, at least IMO
edit: and I have never used Thunderbird
Ndryshuar
Unfortunately, I (OP) disagree.
I am asking what FIREFOX sends as the args to TB. I have very complete documentation about what TB's args are, and I am unable to reproduce the problem manually with what I believe to be correct args for TB.
So, THIS IS A QUESTION ABOUT FIREFOX.
I will post it back again into the FF forum.
locking as a duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1108691