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TOPIC 1 In Betterbird there is the option to colour the email account. The only option in TB is to change the colour of the email envelope icon. There used to be a extension that achieved this but fell by the wayside in TB 115 I researched this on TB forum on reddit.... https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/17unvb1/different_account_colors_in_thunderbird_115/

It made interesting reading and I did download the 'account colours' zip to install and see if it worked. Only thing is that I do not know how to install it........can someone brighter than me tell me how to install it and to remove it if it doesn't work. Many thanks.

Can the order of the sub folders in email account folders be re ordered. Is the add on "manually sort folders" still available? I there another method of doing this.

I am trying to install an add-on to enable the transfer of large email attachments but, having tried to install a "selected" Filelink add-on, I receive a message that it cannot be installed as it is not validated by Mozilla. Please advise which add-on is accepted. Thank you.

All I am trying to do is change the subject line on emails. I found the add ons Header tools lite and improved and installed them. When I select a email to edit the subject line I highlight the message go to menu message>header tools lite>edit lite or edit full source neither one does anything???

Also tried opening the email go to menu message>header tools lite>change header details hit enter nothing happens. Please help and thanks in advance

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.

I'm trying to get the calendar app working in a new Thunderbird installation. Here are my notes on what I tried: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/lightning-calendar-tabs/versions/ Download lightning_calendar_tabs-3.8-tb.xpi (latest version) to C:\Users\ken\Downloads In Thunderbird: Tools --> Add-ons --> Gear icon --> Install add-on from file --> C:\Users\ken\Downloads --> lightning_calendar_tabs-3.8-tb.xpi "about:addons Lightning Calendar Tabs could not be installed because it is not compatible with Thunderbird 144.0.1." Any suggestions?

Do add-on settings get backed up when backing up a profile? I always have to manually install my add-ons when reinstalling a profile. I have one add-on that is a pain to set back up (Identity Chooser), and I have assumed the settings for it are lost.

Every now and then a folder flag will change to the drafts flag/icon, it seems to be a random occurrence which can happen to any sub-folder. Up until the most recent Thunderbird upgrade I had a working extension called FolderFlags which allowed me to go into the Folder properties and change it back but that extension no longer works with the latest version of Thunderbird and there is no alternative extension. How do I change the flag back to it showing as an ordinary sub-folder in my Inbox instead of Drafts? As an interim measure I've created a new sub-folder and copied the emails from the old into the new but that's not ideal at all. I hope somebody will create an updated extension but has anyone any other suggestions please?

In Outlook it is possible to have the favorites fixed in top of the folder pane column. This is very handy when moving emails from the inbox to often used folders which fall outside the displayed part of the folder pane. (You don't have to scroll back if you want to display the content of the inbox). I cannot find a way how I could do this in Thunderbird. Is there a way to fix favorite folders in top of the folder pane?

This question was asked 10 years ago but I can't find where a fix was ever found for the latest version of TB. I would really like to keep the favorite folders in sight while scrolling down through the other folders I've created.

Is there an add-on for this? I searched without finding one.

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

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

Hi! I have been using Shrunked Image Resizer's module for a long time (reduces the size of attachments before sending). It's no longer compatible with the new version of Thunderbird (140.1.0). I don't find any alternative module to replace it. What's the solution please?

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."

I keep installing the Add-on to customize the message body toolbar. Unfortunately, the toolbar returns after a while. Now I can't seem to find the Add-on to customize it.

Any ideas? James

A number of times when I'm answering email and need to check back on the list of emails, I don't see a Tab to take me directly to my list of email accounts (I have 8). A couple of times I've had to shut down T-bird and re-launch it to get back to this list/window. I don't understand why such a Tab isn't available everywhere.

So I'm looking for an add-on which would allow me to add a specific Tab on the T-bird pages where it isn't there, specifically, a Tab to get to the window which has the list of my email accounts.

If there is such a customization, I'd appreciate getting a link to get it.

I'm on 141.0 (64-bit). It says I'm on the "Release update channel." Quickfolders isn't working. How do I get to an older version of Thunderbird where Quickfolders will work again?

When I click on the Add-on compatibility check drop down arrow at the top the message box for add-ons is too big on the screen so I can't see the whole list to the bottom of the box and the box isn't resizeable? Anybody know a solution please?