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I see duplicate menu items for addons under Tools menu for some addons like ImportExport Tools NG for example and its developer identify the issue as longstanding Thunderbird bug on Mac.

Any idea about the isse?

Hi, I am wondering if there is an add-on for Thunderbird that makes it send messages like Outlook without the connection timing out under poor network conditions. Outlook simply holds the message in the Outbox until it has sufficient service to send it. With Thunderbird if there is a poor connection, it's always popping up time out errors in such a case.

With Thunderbird 155 our Shortcuts deletion plugin doesn't work anymore.

Now all the worst shortcuts like "a" are back. 

(I never understood why it isn't something like "Alt+A" )

We need to deactivate all the *(/&%$&% shortcuts. We deactivated them via a plugin. But the plugin does't work with 155. Does someone knew what mozilla chaged with the shortcuts handling, so we can change our plugin acordingly?

When composing a message I am getting a pop-spell check window that auto-fills the top (somewhat bizarre) suggestion. This is suboptimal for me, though it might be entertaining to compose auto-suggest random word salad messages from time to time. The heretofore behavior was to red-underline unrecognized words and permit a right-click pop-up selection for correction.

I run an ever longer list of plugins to maintain the core functionality I rely on for messaging and I realize this pop-up could be an artifact of an "upgrade" thought useful by a plugin, but before I go through a day of sequential plugin testing, if someone here knows how to revert this behavior, I'd very much appreciate it:

The insanely disruptive new behavior is the popup offering to correct "things" as "Things" [sic capitalized for some random reason, though I'm quite smitten with "Th�ringens" as a "correction" to "things"]

The good (olde fashionede) spellcheck offers to correct the intentionally misspelled "thinglys" to "thingy" and correctly ignores "things".

Thing (ha) is the not-for-me version and the good-by-me version are both 128.13.0esr (64-bit), both have "enable spellcheck as you type" enabled, both are set to English (United States) (though, oddly, the order of the dictionaries is different), and both run roughly the same set of plugins, both are on Linux, bad-for-me on Ubuntu and good-by-me on Mint.

I checked Advanced Preferences for anything that might be inducing this odd popup and couldn't find anything obvious under "spellcheck" or "suggest."

Hi all:

Before sending an e-mail, I want check that a particular word (like "my secret") is not in the message body.

Is there any way to do this? I couldn't find any add-on to that end.

If there isn't anything like that, is there any add-on (or an easy way) to run a user-defined script before sending an e-mail? I could then try to write some simple JavaScript code in order to search the message body for a number of words I want to be alerted about.

Failing that, I could use an add-on like Keyword Highlight to automatically highlight unwanted words, but that add-on has been abandoned and does not work anymore. Is there anything similar? I am thinking about something like spell checking, but in reverse, where certain words get underlined in red.

Thanks in advance,

 rdiez

During recent update 148.0 (64-bit) google calendars are not shown either in "Events and Tasks/Calendar" or in "Today's Pane".

Subscribed calendars are still there, but nothing is shown in the days/weeks/months entries apart from the first calendar in the subscription list! Nothing else. And nothing in today's pane.

Reinstalled Thunderbird and reinstalled "Provider for google calendar" but nothing changed.

Thanks, GG

I added the Cardbook extension and I want to import a CSV file with contacts from Outlook. Is there a way to do this? Can you export from Cardbook? Thanks, -- Haig

Good Afternoon! I am looking at an add on right on the Mozilla site. It's called "Edit Email Subject" (EES). This would allow me to organize my emails better by editing the subject line with more detail. I downloaded it, but Firefox tells me the Add On is not verified and cannot be installed. Yet it is on your site. It appears to be what I need, can you help - either by verifiying help, or (?) or by recommending another suitable add on? Reviews on EES were good, by the way. Help! Thank You, Allan

Hi there, I'm experiencing an issue with the Microsoft Teams add-on in Thunderbird, specifically when using it with multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts.

Issue Description:

Previously, I was able to select between accounts using the Teams icon in the toolbar without any problems. However, after switching operating systems, the behavior has changed:

• When I hover over the Teams icon in the toolbar, the account selection menu appears as expected.
• As soon as I move the mouse to select an account from the menu, the menu disappears immediately before I can click anything.
• I've made sure that the mouse doesn't leave the icon or jump erratically, but the menu still vanishes every time.

This only started happening after I changed my OS. On my previous setup, the add-on worked fine.

Fixes Attempted:

• Removed and re-added the Exchange Accounts
• Reinstalled the Owl for Exchange add-on
• Fully uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird, including manually deleting the profile data folder
• Disabled hardware acceleration

So far, nothing has resolved the issue, and I haven’t found any other reports of this specific behavior online.

The attached image shows the account selection menu when hovering over the teams add-on, but as soon as the mouse moves over to the menu it disappears.

System and Application Details:

• Thunderbird Version: 139.0.1 (64-bit)
• Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
• Desktop Environment: KDE Plasma 6.3.4
• Display Manager: X11
• Kernel Version: 6.14.0-15-generic (64-bit)

Any suggestions or workarounds would be greatly appreciated.

Proszę specjalistów o pomoc co mogę zrobić, aby Thunderbird szukał również w treści załączników tekstowych np. PDF, jak np. eM Client, który ma tą funkcję, ale jest znacznie mnie elastyczny i gorszy jeśli chodzi o sprawy konfiguracyjne niż Thunderbird, ale szukanie w załącznikach działa idealnie.

Czy są jakieś dodatki w Thunderbird, abym mógł szukać w załącznikach bezpośrednio w programie w jego wyszukiwarce? Nie chodzi o szykanie poza programem.

Zależy mi na wygodzie użytkowania i skoncentrowania pracy w Thunderbird.

Pozdrawiam :)

Since to old add-on enabling customization of the message header toolbar doesn't work now, where might get one the is compatible with Thunderbird?

Thanks, James

I had a great Thunderbird Emoji add-on that is no longer supported. This.

https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emojiaddin/

It no longer works on updated Thunderbird, and shows it hasn't been updated since 2022. I'm on Thunderbird 140.11 on my Linux Mint. The image the plugin inserts in message bodies is broken. Is there another/similar add-on?

In certain instances, I can no longer copy/cut from Cardbook notes. This happened in last few months. I just have time now to post the problem. I know since then Thunderbird had updates and so had windows. I am on Thunderbird 128.5.2esr and Windows 11 and firefox 133.0.3 I used to be able to select a word or many words and then right click. Then copy or paste would show up as option in a list. Now no list shows up. But control c and control v sometimes works. If I control c and control v within the note that works. I can copy from something like Word and control c and paste using control v and vice versa. But if try control c in notes and then control v in website that does not work. And that is what I use most.

On new computer. I went to Add-ons and searched for Imogies/Emojies, etc., but nothing comes up. I hoped to have the set I had as an add-on on previous computer (which crashed - had to start from scratch).

If anyone knows how to get it, I'd appreciate knowing. I loved using it.

(I know about "Win." - but that doesn't have nearly as many emogies as the Add-on.)

The default font I have been using in replying to messages used to be in the same as what was designated in the Composition settings. Now, with the EnhancedReplyHeaders extension, the default font is always "Variable Width," no matter what I do with the Composition settings. What do I need to do, to have the default Reply font be the same as that specified in the Composition settings? Thanks,

- Alan

I can't control the font size in messages displayed in conversations on the main display. Ctl-Shift-+ enlarges the space allocated to each conversation but doesn't change the font size. In a separate conversation window, things seem to be OK. T-bird 128.8.0esr (64-bit) : Conversations 4.2.4

Thanks for your help. --Len

Just updated to v152 (from 142 esr) on MacOS (26.6 public beta 2) and CardBook creating new contact or edit existing contact and am unable to scroll to bottom of window to the save option

Suddenly, a few days ago, this add-on quitted working, the box where you can type the string to search for is not functioning. It is visible, but not active. Tried disinstalling and re-installing, but nothing. The add-on seems compatible with the versione of Thunderbird, the 141.0, but in reality doesn't work. Could anyone here give a help?

Thank you in advance