"Thunderbird Mobile Linux" - Running Thunderbird from a USB drive.

Just gave this a try, and it works perfectly using the thunderbird 2 available today. I was quite impressed by how easy and seamless it was.


1. Downloaded the thunderbird tarball from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
2. Extracted it to the device.
3. Placed the following file in the thunderbird folder:

runthun.sh

#!/bin/bash

if touch cUSBprofile/; then echo Profile folder found, starting.; else mkdir cUSBprofile && echo Profile folder created, starting.; fi


./thunderbird -profile "cUSBprofile"

Worked just fine on ubuntu and OpenSuSE.

To run it, open a console in that directory and run ./runthun.sh - you might want to make an appropriate launcher icon for your favourite desktop environment.