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Advice on running in the background

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It's still so inconvenient when I turn on the "minimize to tray" option in settings. Clicking "Minimize" does move to the tray, but clicking "Close" immediately exits. The ideal logic is: when Thunderbird is opened, it immediately creates and activates the tray

It's still so inconvenient when I turn on the "minimize to tray" option in settings. Clicking "Minimize" does move to the tray, but clicking "Close" immediately exits. The ideal logic is: when Thunderbird is opened, it immediately creates and activates the tray

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Check out the addon, minimize on startup.

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david

Check out the addon, minimize on startup.

So, how do you minimize it when you click the "Close" button? Believe me, many people have this problem too.

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Install the addon minimize on close. By pending the close button TB minimizes to tray and not to Taskbar.