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Undesired change in response to email selection

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jsw152
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I have just installed Thunderbird on Windows 11 and it has two very annoying new habits. When I click on an email it opens it instead of giving me a preview. And when I move an email to another folder it also opens that folder. Neither happened on the old computer so how can I get back to the way it used to be?

I have just installed Thunderbird on Windows 11 and it has two very annoying new habits. When I click on an email it opens it instead of giving me a preview. And when I move an email to another folder it also opens that folder. Neither happened on the old computer so how can I get back to the way it used to be?

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Matt
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there has never been a "preview" despite folk repeatedly referring to the message pane as a preview. Press F8 to bring it back. That key toggles it.

or use the menu

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Wayne Mery
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The use of the term preview is widespread and ingrained going way back, with 70 bug reports created prior to 2008 https://mzl.la/46ZfU5e and another 46 in the following five years (2008-2013) https://mzl.la/3KEceP0. An equal number in the same period use "message pane" https://mzl.la/478jF8J.

I have always assumed there was a non-accidental reason "preview" for it to be used so heavily used, even though the term doesn't exist in the UI.

I did some investigation some years ago https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.support.thunderbird/c/3yuH5YfjbHw/m/eKzxqXBUW58J where I cite mozillazine articles which predate SUMO knowledge base.

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