I am trying to find out how to remove the Thunderbird Mail Applet from the top right corner of the toolbar in Ubuntu 14.04 I have already tried going to Thunderbird-Add-ons manager - Extensions and have disabled Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher integration 1.3.1 But this has not removed the mail applet from the toolbar
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In Thunderbird,goto menu "Edit", "Preferences", then select the "Advanced" section and click on "Config. Editor
find:
extensions.messagingmenu.enabled
and set it to false. Close your session and re-open it or reboot
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I have had a look through the advanced section as suggested looking for extensions.messaging.enabled - I do not have / see any such line under extensions - the nearest match I could see saying anything about 'messagingmenu' was the following; extensions.xpiState;{"app-global":{"[email protected]":{"d":"/usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/[email protected]","e":false,"v":".................. my Thunderbird version is 38.5.1 running on Ubuntu 14.04 Mar 6, 2016 at 19:29