The stark gray interface seems like a holdover from Thunderbird’s distant origins as Netscape Communicator.

You must drag the Thunderbird dmg file/icon to the Mac Applications folder.Bare-Bones to Start: Thunderbird requires you to download add-ons just to get features that other email clients come with by default.

If you fail to install Thunderbird to the Mac applications, every time Thunderbird starts it will not have remembered your provious session settings - it will ask you to create email accounts, or otherwise indicate that it has no data.

If not (for example if you are just trying out Thunderbird) click No. (The default email application is the program that opens, for example, when you click a link on a web page to an email address.) If you want Thunderbird to be the default email application, click Yes to set it as your default mailer. The first time you start Thunderbird you will be alerted that it is not your default email application. Just open your Applications folder and drag Thunderbird to the dock. Tip: You can add Thunderbird to your dock for easy access. Because you downloaded Thunderbird from the official site, you can click Open to continue.

You may get a security warning that Thunderbird has been downloaded from the Internet. Open the Applications folder and start by double-clicking on the Thunderbird icon. Now eject the disk image by selecting it in a Finder window and pressing the command+ E keys or by using the Finder's File menu, and selecting Eject. Drag the Thunderbird icon to the Applications folder. A Finder window appears, containing the Thunderbird application. If you do not see the new volume, double-click the Thunderbird dmg icon to open it.

Once the download is completed, the disk image may open by itself and mount a new volume which contains the Thunderbird application. Click on the OS X installation of your choice to continue.) (If you want to download Thunderbird in a language other than the one suggested, click on 'Other Systems & Languages' for the list of available editions. Open the Thunderbird free download page, which detects the platform and language of your computer and recommends the best edition of Thunderbird for you. For other operating systems, see Installing Thunderbird on Windows and Installing Thunderbird on Linux.īefore you install Thunderbird, check that your computer meets the System Requirements. This article describes how to install Thunderbird on Mac.

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