Disabling Thunderbird Addons
Today I was in the unfortunate position of not being able to use Thunderbird to read my email. I recently installed the Lightning calendar addon together with the Provider for Google Calendar addon. What’s supposed to happen is the calendar within Thunderbird (provided by the Lightning addon) is automatically updated from (and updates) my Google Calendars.
In practice, what happens is that when Thunderbird starts, not much happens until I get a popup dialog box telling me that a script on this page is taking a long time to finish. Even if I try and cancel the script, nothing responds until I manually kill off Thunderbird completely.
Which is a shame.
So, Dr Jan’s Tip From The Top for today is…
You can start Thunderbird with all addons disabled by using the command line:
thunderbird -safe-mode
Once Thunderbird has started it’s then a simple matter to use the Addons screen to disable or uninstall the offending addon.
It seems that the problem for me was the Provider for Google Calendar addon. The Lightning calendar is excellent, and getting better at a good rate too. Unfortunately, without the Google Calendar synchronisation it’s not much use to me at the moment.
I’ll probably try again when a new version is released 
[...] on Twin Peaks I wrote about the problems I was having with the Lightning calendar add-on for the Thunderbird email [...]
↓ Quote | Posted2008-04-24, 23:23