1197577 - Thunderbird creates an additional icon in the windows 10 taskbar instead of using the pinned one.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[info]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.157 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Pinning thunderbird to the taskbar from a running instance or by dragging the icon onto the taskbar.


Actual results:

This results in two thunderbird icons in the taskbar instead of one. When running thunderbird by clicking the pinned icon, a second icon appears that shows the actual window.


Expected results:

There should only be a single thunderbird icon.

Comment 1

[tjjfv]

Works as expected for me in both cases listed, and all other methods of pinning TB that I tried.

Tested with: Win 10 (fully updated); TB 38.2.0 (first install was post Win 10); single profile, default shortcuts

Do you use multiple profiles, or a shortcut with any options/arguments?

Comment 2

[info]

(In reply to tjjfv from comment #1)
> Works as expected for me in both cases listed, and all other methods of
> pinning TB that I tried.
> 
> Tested with: Win 10 (fully updated); TB 38.2.0 (first install was post Win
> 10); single profile, default shortcuts
> 
> Do you use multiple profiles, or a shortcut with any options/arguments?

I encountered the issue on a fresh install of windows 10 and a fresh install of thunderbird 38.2 using only the google calendar provider addon. I am not using any startup arguments or different profiles.

Is there any configuration or something i may provide?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Marcoa, can you reproduce this?

Comment 4

[Marco A.G.Pinto [:marcoagpinto]]

[14:07] <marcoagpinto> wsmwk: Wayne Mery, in the taskbar bug it happened to me with FF 42 x86 upgrading manually to FF 43 x64
[14:08] <marcoagpinto> but, I tried all I could think of with TB 38.4 and TB 42b2 and it didn't reproduce
[14:08] <marcoagpinto> the solution is simple: just delete the old icon from the taskbar MANUALLY

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

info,
Still happens with version 45?

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I have been affected by this bug for a long time, and it has been extremely annoying.
Unfortunately it'll be impossible to reconstruct the exact circumstances.
I may have changed the application path or command line switches on the pinned shortcut over time.
But the net result was a pinned link without switches nor profile switches (application path was C:\Program Files\Thunderbird Daily\thunderbird.exe, I guess that's a non-default path, and it does have its own auto-associated profile).
Every time when clicking the pinned shortcut, it would open a new icon at the end of the taskbar instead of highlighting the already pinned icon.

I succeeded to fix it for now by pinning the secondary icon instead, which now works correctly.