I guess I have to post on this thread each year, but what draws me this time is this post on the support page. Seriously, Mozilla devs can we make "The Year of the Linux Desktop" also the year you actually ship this highly requested feature?
@LizLee It's unacceptable that in 2025, we're still missing a fundamental feature in Thunderbird on Linux Desktop - a feature that's been long overdue. We've been waiting patiently for 25 years, and it's time for Mozilla devs to prioritize this cruci...
@christianz that doesn't help at all, system tray is more then minimize on close, it let the app start in the background(system tray) on login, so I don't have to do that every time, it clear the the task bar since I don't need it there when am not u...
I am waiting for this feature for a long time, betterbird app (thunderbird fork) has a compromise, it starts/minimize to system tray, but can't close to system tray unfortunately.