I’ve been using mozilla thunderbird a lot more lately, mainly because of work.   It’s always bugged me that it doesn’t minimize to the tray by default.

It’s probably fairly obvious, but I ended up searching google for a little while and stumbling across old versions of a plugin meant to minimize thunderbird to the windows system tray.    I should have just looked on mozilla’s website to begin with 🙂

To help someone else out when searching for “how to minimize thunderbird to tray”, go download the following extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2110

See it in action(below and above):

MinimizeToTray options