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Calendar events would be FAR easier to see with custom colors

I FOUND no close TOPIC. Google calendar allows color-coding of events - but the display is highly inadequate. T-bird 128 calendar apparently HAS no option to color event… (read more)

I FOUND no close TOPIC.

Google calendar allows color-coding of events - but the display is highly inadequate. T-bird 128 calendar apparently HAS no option to color events. But events are FAR easier to see WHEN color-highlighted. Would this be a difficult option??

Asked by Paul Hubert 1 year ago

Answered by Paul Hubert 1 year ago

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Can I make a single search for "To, from, cc, bcc, reply-to"?

In classic search, "To, from, cc, bcc" and "reply-to" are two separate searches. Is there a way to combine these in a single item in the drop-down list? The reason is I n… (read more)

In classic search, "To, from, cc, bcc" and "reply-to" are two separate searches. Is there a way to combine these in a single item in the drop-down list? The reason is I need to do

("To, from, cc, bcc" = <something> OR "reply-to" = <something> ) AND ("age in days" < 30)

so

("To, from, cc, bcc, reply-to" = <something> ) AND ("age in days" < 30)

does the job. I'd greatly prefer this to be classic search, but all suggestions welcome.

Many thanks

Asked by Andrew White 9 months ago

Answered by sfhowes 9 months ago

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Is there a way in Thunderbird to find a particular type of attachment ?

Hi all, I know how to search Thunderbird emails using the "right-click on a folder" method to "Search messages" to list only those emails which have attachments. What … (read more)

Hi all,

I know how to search Thunderbird emails using the "right-click on a folder" method to "Search messages" to list only those emails which have attachments.

What I would like to do is narrow that down further so that the results only show attachments of a certain type of attachment e.g. just PDFs, or just PNGs.

Is there a way to do that ?

I don't care about matching the filename of the PDF or PNG just that it *IS* a PDF or PNG filetype.

Thanks.

Asked by SuMo Bot 8 months ago

Answered by SuMo Bot 8 months ago

Typing new address

Hello! In Firefox android, sometimes when I press the address bar, instead of coloring and deleting the whole address, so I can type new address, it goes into some edit… (read more)

Hello!

In Firefox android, sometimes when I press the address bar, instead of coloring and deleting the whole address, so I can type new address, it goes into some editing mode, where when I start typing, it starts continuing the address already there. What is this extremely annoying feature? I share a screenshot where an address is colored. The grey "normal" part, and the purple part where the cursor is when I start typing.

Asked by Tor 4 months ago

Last reply by Tor 3 months ago

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drop down list of URL addresses

I want to increase the drop down list to show more frequent URLs. Is there a setting that allows me to do it? I have looked and haven't found it. Also, Can I reduce th… (read more)

I want to increase the drop down list to show more frequent URLs. Is there a setting that allows me to do it? I have looked and haven't found it. Also, Can I reduce the number of recent searches displayed on this panel. The recent change of adding them detracts from my usage of the drop down list.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions

Asked by eastwyck 4 months ago

Answered by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 4 months ago

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Google cuts off my searched phrases if they contain certain symbols (+, &, #)

Hello! For a while now I've had an issue browsing with Google using Firefox. As stated in the subject line, Google would cut off parts of my search if certain symbols ar… (read more)

Hello!

For a while now I've had an issue browsing with Google using Firefox. As stated in the subject line, Google would cut off parts of my search if certain symbols are used within it.

For example: "1+1" becomes "1 1" "R&B" becomes "R" "#100" sends me back to google main page "number #100" becomes "number"

There might be other symbols that cause issues, but these are the three I keep running into. I tested another browser and this issue doesn't happen in it, meaning it must be an issue with Firefox.

I have already tried clearing cookies and cache, and it did not resolve the problem.

I would appreciate help with this!

Asked by pavlicart 9 months ago

Answered by pavlicart 9 months ago

Hide share button in address bar.

How to hide the share button in the address bar in Firefox on Android (nighly, single row bottom address bar layout). Together with reader mode and the translate button (… (read more)

How to hide the share button in the address bar in Firefox on Android (nighly, single row bottom address bar layout). Together with reader mode and the translate button (if available) there is almost no space left for the address itself. Moving all three buttons to the menu (or at least the share button) would help a lot.

Asked by accounts169 5 months ago

Last reply by accounts169 5 months ago

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Why the latest Monthly Release channel is not present in the Release Notes page at https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/ ?

Hi, Thunderbird Desktop is now available in the Monthly Release Channel, with version 136.0 released on March 4th, 2025. More information about this release is not yet … (read more)

Hi,

Thunderbird Desktop is now available in the Monthly Release Channel, with version 136.0 released on March 4th, 2025.

More information about this release is not yet updated in the Release Notes.

Currently, only information about the ESR channel is available in the Release Notes.

Asked by asifmohammad.shaik 8 months ago

Answered by Corey Bryant 8 months ago

Shortcuts

Beginning a few days ago, shortcuts on my iPad from 2+ years have begun appearing. I delete them but they keep coming back the next time Firefox is started.

Asked by 8022s 5 months ago

Last reply by 8022s 5 months ago

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Search Strangeness

Hello, I’m using the latest version of Thunderbird. The Ctrl-Shift-F search does not offers me the option of searching in the message Body when searching the Deleted fold… (read more)

Hello, I’m using the latest version of Thunderbird. The Ctrl-Shift-F search does not offers me the option of searching in the message Body when searching the Deleted folder, although it is fine when searching in the Inbox. I have tried restarting Thunderbird to no effect. What is going on? Alan.

Asked by Alan37 8 months ago

Answered by sfhowes 8 months ago

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my duckduckgo got changed to google on 1/1/2025

i have used mozilla for many years, i HATE google! last night 12/31/24 duckduckgo was my search engine, i stayed up until 1 or 2am on 1/1/2025 and watched several youtube… (read more)

i have used mozilla for many years, i HATE google! last night 12/31/24 duckduckgo was my search engine, i stayed up until 1 or 2am on 1/1/2025 and watched several youtube videos (i had been watching them all day) and turned my computer off and went to bed. around 9am 1/1/2025 i got up and turned on my computer, clicked mozilla in my toolbar and started a search, I GOT GOOGLE RESULTS, SO HIT THE BACK ARROW AND NOTICED GOOGLE WAS MY SEARCH ENGINE!! DID YOU DO AN UPDATE OR ANYTHING TO CHANGE MY SEARCH ENGINE TO GOOGLE? i managed to download duckduckgo and make it my search engine again. BUT i NEED to know if this happened on YOUR END, or if GOOGLE did something. I HAD NOT MADE ANY CHANGES TO MY COMPUTER ON 12/31/2024 OR THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AFTER MIDNIGHT!!!

IF MOZILLA DID THIS , I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT IF IT WAS NEFARIOUSLY DONE BY GOOGLE, THEN IM PISSED!!! THANK YOU!

Asked by lnrdwl2014 10 months ago

Last reply by lnrdwl2014 10 months ago

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search function

A few months ago the search feature stopped working. I used to be able to search for a message or messages by entering a search term in a search field, and/or using a fi… (read more)

A few months ago the search feature stopped working. I used to be able to search for a message or messages by entering a search term in a search field, and/or using a filter like subject, sender, etc. But a few months ago that stopped working. Instead, there is no search field (except the general one searching for the term anywhere in the message) unless I click "quick filter", which then provides a more targeted search. But it calls up a random array of messages bearing no relationship to the search item. This is only on my MacbookAir. My iPhone also has Thunderbird but its search function seems accurate, only displaying what the search value is, except it doesn't get many when I know there are more in my inbox. My inbox is horribly overfull--I keep hoping to be able to find the ones I want to keep without deleting everything.

I checked the Thunderbird site and discovered much more complicated than the last time I looked. Right now all I want is the old one to work correctly. Thanks. Margaret Phillips

Asked by mphillips5 6 months ago

Last reply by Matt 5 months ago

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Please offer a REAL search engine!! Something truely indepent of paid content at the top

Please offer a REAL search engine!!! Not this garbage paid content at the top of every search: Wokepedia, Snopes, msm fake new, etc.. People are figuring out how this … (read more)

Please offer a REAL search engine!!!

Not this garbage paid content at the top of every search: Wokepedia, Snopes, msm fake new, etc.. People are figuring out how this content makes it to the top of EVERY search, and we're not BUYING IT!!! People are leave Google /YourCensored Tube owing to their censorship and pushing billionaire globalist narratives.

Companies like Rumble & X are the future! MAKE an open source, truly privacy minded search engine or PREPARE TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS. Because people are asking for it everywhere, notably on X!!!

No more FAKE msm news stories. All the search engines offered on FireFox Suck! DuckDuck GO used to be good, but now it's like all the rest.

Yandex looks to be one of the better options right now, but people are asking Elon Musk to do a real search engine.

Asked by tmd_dunn 10 months ago

Last reply by tmd_dunn 10 months ago

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How to search contact phone numbers?

Steps to reproduce: 1. Using Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit), navigate to "Address Book" 2. Using "Address Book" "List display options". Type in any pho… (read more)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Using Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit), navigate to "Address Book"

2. Using "Address Book" "List display options". Type in any phone number

3. No result are display. This is the challenge. The needed end result is to search all Phone Number field for all contacts. Including any additional "Phone Number" field per contact if any. For example, but not limited to, "Phone Number 1", "Phone Number 2", "Fax Number", etc.


Using this on device 1:

• Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit) from Arch Linux repository

• Arch Linux latest version

• KDE Plasma latest version


Using this on device 2:

• Betterbird/Thunderbird 128.9.2esr-bb25 (64-bit) from https://flathub.org/apps/eu.betterbird.Betterbird

• Debian Bookworm 12

• GNOME 43.9


What I tried that did not work:

• Add-on "Contact Tabs" does not support Betterbird/Thunderbird 128 at https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/contact-tabs/

Asked by Francewhoa 6 months ago

Answered by Francewhoa 6 months ago

Thunderbird setup - cannot access old messages in inbox

I installed and set up Thunderbird on my Mac in order to create a backup for a Yahoo/AT&T email account which I may be getting rid of. I used the imap configuration a… (read more)

I installed and set up Thunderbird on my Mac in order to create a backup for a Yahoo/AT&T email account which I may be getting rid of. I used the imap configuration and connected just fine, everything downloaded and I see that the number of messages in my inbox is in the thousands (yes, I'm a person who saves everything in my email, please don't judge). The synchronization and storage are set to synch all messages locally regardless of age and don't delete any messages. However, when I search for old messages in my inbox, it produces no results. When I scroll through the inbox, the oldest message I can see is about 7 months old. There is plenty of storage on the computer. Any advice on how to get access to the older messages and how to make them searchable? Is there a limit to how many messages Thunderbird can display in the inbox? The whole point was to create a searchable backup of everything for when I get rid of the email account. Thanks!

Asked by ecdmed 5 months ago

Last reply by ecdmed 5 months ago

Adding App Icons to Firefox Focus Home Screen

How to add shortcut icons (to web pages) to the Focus home page while using phone. NOT to the phone Home Page, but to the page that opens when I start the browser. … (read more)

How to add shortcut icons (to web pages) to the Focus home page while using phone. NOT to the phone Home Page, but to the page that opens when I start the browser.

Asked by ybgv6hyycq 5 months ago

Last reply by wirkutskijkarl 5 months ago