How to prevent thunderbird from creating ~/Thunderbird folder ?

Lone_Wolf · 2026-01-26 12:12:46

A few days ago I noticed cli completion of ~/T didn't give me ~/Temp as intended.

Checking the directories under $HOME revealed the existence of a directory Thunderbird .
I didn't create it, it was empty so I deleted it.

Unfortunately every time I start thunderbird (.desktop, /usr/bin/thunderbird, /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird ) it recreates this folder.

My thunderbird profile is in the same location it has always been ( ~/.thunderbird ) and works fine.

StarWolf3000 · 2026-01-26 12:33:33

External bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2007074

Seems to be related to XDG changes.

Last edited by StarWolf3000 (2026-01-26 12:51:54)

Lone_Wolf · 2026-01-26 13:58:35

Thx, bookmarked.

StarWolf3000 · 2026-02-02 12:09:09

Still present in Thunderbird 147.0.1 (but Firefox 147.0.1 has it fixed already). Hoping for fix in 147.0.2 or greater.

Nikolai5 · Yesterday 14:47:10

Was just about to make a post seeing if others had seen this too and because Mozilla really prefer if it's replicable on multiple PCs, nice to see its not anything I've done and that there's already a bug report with Mozilla.

Thanks

Arch Linux

#1 2026-01-26 12:12:46

How to prevent thunderbird from creating ~/Thunderbird folder ?

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