Hotmail/Outlook

Yesterday, I get a screen popup that says" Outlook(formerly Hotmail)" Saying Hotmail will now be Outlook. I've had Hotmail for maybe 30+ years now? I've always had Firef… (read more)

Yesterday, I get a screen popup that says" Outlook(formerly Hotmail)" Saying Hotmail will now be Outlook.

I've had Hotmail for maybe 30+ years now? I've always had Firefox open to my inbox, which is Outlook and has been for a year or better.

Since yesterday it will not open up to my inbox. It opens to the MS website showing what I wrote up above and a picture of Outlook.

I've deleted cookies and cache. Also history. Even though I point it to my inbox it just goes to that advertisement. I have the stay signed in box checked and don't show this again. But it does show again and again. I hope there's a way to fix this, pretty sure it not a Firefox issue. Just hoping someone else has had and and found a way around it.

Thanks Daniel B

Asked by DocHoliday69 5 months ago

Last reply by ThePillenwerfer 2 months ago

Saving usernames but not passwords

I would like Firefox to save my usernames for sites, but not the passwords. However, Firefox insists that I supply a password before it will save the account details, an… (read more)

I would like Firefox to save my usernames for sites, but not the passwords. However, Firefox insists that I supply a password before it will save the account details, and if I supply a dummy password, then it will not let me later edit the account and delete the password. I like to remember my own passwords rather than store them anywhere.

I have tried password managers and they are overbearingly controlling, particularly given that they don't store my passwords let alone my 2FA details, so I'd rather just use Firefox's less onerous, built-in system, if only it would allow me to save an account without a password. Surely saving a username without a password is a safe option, so why block it?

Asked by fffox2 5 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 5 months ago

Download prompt not working

I have a new desktop. I checked the box in Settings to "Always ask you where to save files." However, it's still dumping files in Downloads without asking. Why, and how … (read more)

I have a new desktop. I checked the box in Settings to "Always ask you where to save files." However, it's still dumping files in Downloads without asking.

Why, and how do we correct that?

Asked by ithinktfiam 5 months ago

Last reply by TechHorse 5 months ago

Thunderbird Split Screen

I had to reinstall Thunderbird after a crash. Before, my inbox was split in two. The top half was the messages and the bottom half a preview of the selected message. No… (read more)

I had to reinstall Thunderbird after a crash. Before, my inbox was split in two. The top half was the messages and the bottom half a preview of the selected message. Now I just have one long list of emails. Please can you advise how to go back to the split screen view. Many thanks.

Asked by Gatordad 5 months ago

Last reply by david 5 months ago

How to fix the row height of messages and add space to the bottom?

I just updated to the latest version of Thunderbird after not updating for well over a year now, so I'm late to the "hate on Thunderbird devs" party. The font changes, a… (read more)

I just updated to the latest version of Thunderbird after not updating for well over a year now, so I'm late to the "hate on Thunderbird devs" party. The font changes, as I'm sure have been mentioned a million times, is a disaster. I've already wasted several hours on this.

I managed to fix the core font size issue with, which fixed MOST of the problems:

layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = 1.12

However, I can't figure out how to increase the row height of the message area. If I switch from Compact mode to Default, everything in the folder pane gets far too big (and, yes, I reset devPixelsPerPx as a test) and the message area rows are too tall.

In addition, I want a few pixels at the bottom of the message area so that when a new message comes in, I see a few pixels of the top of the new message without having to scroll.

If you are having trouble visualizing what I want:

Per row of each message: 1px padding at the top + 18px main area + 1px padding at the bottom (i.e. 20 px total). After the last row: 3px (or so) to display just enough pixels to show the next message whenever it arrives.

Using the browser toolbox, I see that the height of each row is defined using an inline style. So I can't apply CSS to fix it globally in a custom stylesheet. Using the Inspector, I can temporarily change the inline style of a single row to "height: 20px" and it displays the row as I want it to be displayed. However, this doesn't solve the other problem of putting a few pixels at the end of the messages to display a few pixels of a new message when it arrives. I also tried modifying the selector "table[is="tree-view-table"] & td" to hardcode a 20px height and added a 3px padding to the bottom, which works to solve BOTH problems BUT introduces a bug where switching folders no longer scrolls to the bottom of the list of messages. My guess is that Thunderbird is calculating where to scroll to based on the assumption that the row height is exactly 18px. So using CSS alone is not really possible.

What a mess.

Asked by George 5 months ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 5 months ago

How to sort by number of messages from Sender?

I'm doing a major cleanup of old Gmail email messages. I want to quickly find the senders that have the most number of messages. In Thunderbird, I set the view to All Ma… (read more)

I'm doing a major cleanup of old Gmail email messages. I want to quickly find the senders that have the most number of messages.

In Thunderbird, I set the view to All Mail, and then display in Card View. I'm sorting by From, and Grouped By Sort.

This gives me a useful view, but I can not find a way to sort by number of messages (in other words to display the senders in order based on the total number of emails from that sender and show me the number of messages.)

Is there a way to do this in Thunderbird? If not, are there any other tools/email clients that will give me a view like this?

Thank you.

Asked by Matthew London 5 months ago

Last reply by sfhowes 5 months ago

Organizing email senders by tags or color

I'm trying to categorize some of my favorite and important email contacts by color so when messages from them land they will display in a specific color to make them easi… (read more)

I'm trying to categorize some of my favorite and important email contacts by color so when messages from them land they will display in a specific color to make them easier to pick out of the rest. Is there a way to do this in Thunderbird?

Asked by rob250 5 months ago

Last reply by Googlethunderbird 5 months ago

How to prevent the deletion of messages in Thunderbird

Hi, I'm new here and need some help. I use gmail as an email client and I want to use Thunderbird to save all my emails there. But when I delete them from Gmail, I want t… (read more)

Hi, I'm new here and need some help. I use gmail as an email client and I want to use Thunderbird to save all my emails there. But when I delete them from Gmail, I want them to remain in Thunderbird and not be deleted from there. How to prevent the deletion of messages from Thunderbird using Imap? If I use Pop3, messages from folders or sent ones do not appear, that's why I use Imap, but when I delete messages directly from gmail, I see that they are automatically deleted from Thunderbird as well, how can I prevent this from happening again? Thank you very much, take care!

Asked by Eu 5 months ago

Last reply by christ1 5 months ago

Passwort ändern

Hi zusammen, folgendes Problem: Ich wollte eine email senden, dann ploppte auf, dass das Senden fehlgeschlagen ist weil die Authentifizierung fehlt, ich soll das Passwor… (read more)

Hi zusammen,

folgendes Problem: Ich wollte eine email senden, dann ploppte auf, dass das Senden fehlgeschlagen ist weil die Authentifizierung fehlt, ich soll das Passwort neu eingeben. Das Passwort wird wohl nicht akzeptiert. Es dauert paar Sekunden, dann ploppt wieder das Fenster auf wo ich das Passwort neu eingeben kann. Das Passwort ist zu 10000% richtig! Es wird aber nicht angenommen. Ich habe das Programm bereits neu aufgemacht, die PC´s neu gestartet, das Programm deinstalliert und neu installiert. In den Einstellungen habe ich versucht das Passwort zu "bearbeiten" das Feld war grau hinterlegt, somit nicht anklickbar. Ich habe die gespeicherten Zugangsdaten gelöscht, nun werden Sie auch nicht mehr angezeigt. Gibt es denn keine Möglichkeit das Passwort zu ändern oder "Passwort vergessen" zu klicken, sodass man es neu einrichten kann??

Ich weiß nicht was ich machen kann! Bin auch nur ein Laie.

Wer kann helfen???

Viele Grüße Romy

Asked by mail2158 5 months ago

Last reply by david 5 months ago

importing Safari "favorites" to Firefox

Hello, I am hoping to escape the Apple + Google search world and am trying out Firefox, which I used to use many years ago. How do I / Can I show my Safari "Favorites" o… (read more)

Hello, I am hoping to escape the Apple + Google search world and am trying out Firefox, which I used to use many years ago.

How do I / Can I show my Safari "Favorites" on the homepage of Firefox? A simple, obvious question, but I have not found an answer in your files.

Thank you,

Cynthia Whitehead

Asked by Juris Translations 5 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 5 months ago

How do I train Thunderbird to use upper-case letters at the beginning of sentences and for my name?

I need Thunderbird to keep upper-case letters at the beginning of sentences when I do this. I also need my name to keep the first letter upper-case. Show me how to do thi… (read more)

I need Thunderbird to keep upper-case letters at the beginning of sentences when I do this. I also need my name to keep the first letter upper-case. Show me how to do this, please.

Asked by drickar 5 months ago

Last reply by Matt 5 months ago

No suggestions when searching in the preferences?

Seemingly straightforward searches through the options like: "Reset firefox" "Clear cookies" "Empty cache" None of these things pull up any results when searchi… (read more)

Seemingly straightforward searches through the options like:

  • "Reset firefox"
  • "Clear cookies"
  • "Empty cache"

None of these things pull up any results when searching the settings... Why?

Asked by garciapiano 5 months ago

Last reply by ThePillenwerfer 5 months ago

default highlight colour

I recently updated Thunderbird. Currently now running 128.1.0esr (64-bit). The highlight colour (when I place the cursor on a message) is now a dark brown. I need to ch… (read more)

I recently updated Thunderbird. Currently now running 128.1.0esr (64-bit). The highlight colour (when I place the cursor on a message) is now a dark brown. I need to change this to another colour so that I can 'see' the text of the header. Have played with colours in Settings, General - these changes do not change the default highlight colour. Hope you have a fix. Thanks. Cheers. Bobbe G

Asked by bobbe1 5 months ago

Last reply by Matt 5 months ago