Ubuntu, Thunderbird always maximised

I recently switched from Linux Mint back to the old trusty Ubuntu (11.10) One major problem was Unity, but I got round this by installing Xfce and use that as a shell instead. Much better. Now, my Thunderbird is proper maximised. Like full screen, so I can’t switch to any applications unless I use ALT [...]

Export Thunderbird contacts to Outlook

I wanted to export my Thunderbird Contacts to Microsoft Outlook 2010 beta. Jesus, if that wasn’t the most stressful export ever! Thunderbird can only export as CSV or tab separated – or LDAP. Outlook says it can import from CSV and Tab separated, however it just crashes with mapping errors. I tried dragging them from [...]