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Collapse / Expand all folders

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wquatan
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Hi,

In earlier TB releases (don't remember which ones) it was possible to collapse (or expand) all (sub-)folders by right clicking the foldername.

Actually I'm on TB128 and that seems no longer possible (or I am overlooking something).

I've been searching everywhere, also for an addon to do that, without success. Is there a solution ?

I really don't understand why this was removed. Why is TB always changing (and removing essential) things, mostly not for the better ? Mozilla, please, less "design" but more "functionality" and "user-friendly features"

Hi, In earlier TB releases (don't remember which ones) it was possible to collapse (or expand) all (sub-)folders by right clicking the foldername. Actually I'm on TB128 and that seems no longer possible (or I am overlooking something). I've been searching everywhere, also for an addon to do that, without success. Is there a solution ? I really don't understand why this was removed. Why is TB always changing (and removing essential) things, mostly not for the better ? Mozilla, please, less "design" but more "functionality" and "user-friendly features"

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Wayne Mery
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Never right+click - not without some addon.

Double click works.

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wquatan
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Wayne Mery said
Double click works.

Not really, it only closes that folder.

The question was "... to collapse (or expand) all (sub-)folders ..."

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Wayne Mery
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If it ever existed, it would be listed in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird. I don't see anything listed there. And I don't see something of that description ever being removed from the list.

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wquatan
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Maybe, but anyway that list is for keyboard-shortcuts. I might well be that it existed without a keyboard-shortcut.

AFIK in the past there was something like that under right-clicking the foldername

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