Every thunderbird update requires locking a new entry to the launcher and removing the old one

[Nathaniel W. Turner]

Every time Thunderbird is updated (it seems), the Thunderbird Mail launcher that is pinned (or "locked") to my Unity launcher stops working correctly --- it still launches Thunderbird, but instead of the launcher icon changing to show that the program is running, a *new*, identical launcher entry appears at the bottom of the launcher.

To get normal behavior back, I then have to right click on this new launcher entry, choose "Lock to Launcher", right click on the old launcher, choose "Unlock from Launcher", then drag the new icon to the place in the panel where the old one was.

This is silly. (Imagine if Windows 7 users had to do this every time there was patch for Outlook or IE...)

Feel free to reassign to the thunderbird package if that *really* is where the fix needs to go...

I'm running quantal, but this has been happening as long as I can remember, at least as far back as precise...

[Nathaniel W. Turner (nturner)]

This is still happening regularly a year later. Is this really difficult to resolve, or do none of the Unity developers dogfood Ubuntu anymore?

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Ubuntu 12.10 reached end-of-life so it's no longer supported. Can youstill reproduce this bug on 14.04 (or laters)?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for unity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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[Expired for Unity because there has been no activity for 60 days.]