Hi Bert, this behaviour is expected, as Thunderbird and the browser do not use the Ubuntu Online Accounts credentials, such as your Google account. The projects that currently use the Google account credentials from UOA are Empathy, the Google Drive scope for the Files lens and Gwibber.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center-signon (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center-signon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1088026 Title: Google online account no access granted Status in “gnome-control-center-signon” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Somewhere in the past week due to the updates, the google online account shows that no access is granted, but I still can use Google through e.g Thunderbird Mail and the browser. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-5.13-generic 3.7.0-rc8 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-5-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.3-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Dec 8 14:41:16 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-08 (29 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20121107.2) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu6.1 deja-dup 25.1.1-0ubuntu2 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.2bzr12.12.05-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-unity 1.0-0ubuntu1 indicator-datetime 12.10.3daily12.11.23-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center-signon/+bug/1088026/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp