Set up password for Thunderbird when It's never had one

I installed Thunderbird on Mac running Mavericks but didn't set up a password when I installed it. Can I set up a password now so that when I open Thunderbird it asks for one before it will open? please be gentle with me, I'm a silver surfer so need an idiot's guide :-)

Thanks, but to be really honest it seems a bit complicated to a silver surfer. I don't really want master passwords or anything just when I open Thunderbird I want it to ask for a password before it opens. Also there is no "options" under "tools" or any of the other drop downs in either Thunderbird or Firefox - certainly not on my Macbook running OSX 10.9.3 but I guess it's on the security tab in preferences. So what you are saying is that there is no way to just put a password on Thunderbird to allow it to open?

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Set up password for Thunderbird when It's never had one

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