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After the recent update, the buttons on the url-bar-search for searching in bookmarks, tabs or search engine, are gone and turned into a drop down. This kinda sucks. the buttons were perfectly fine; one-click.

Any way to get the buttons back?

I get this series of 3 error log reports on every Thunderbird startup. I open the ERROR LOG screen and they are there. I can delete them but then on the next startup they are there again.

Is there a setting I can change to correct this?

My ADD-ONS, EXTENSIONS list is empty.

Thanks, BH

My browser settings screen says my browser is being managed by my orgainzationi, but i do not have an organization. This concerns me as to who is managing the browser.

Sat. 04/19/2025 @9:10 am CDT - Hi. About 2 months ago on any Settings page, FF began to show "your browser is being managed by your organization." The problem is - it's a STANDALONE box, not connected to any network beyond my ISP. I do own websites but I'm not perpetually logged into the host company, so their switch to Microsoft Entra wouldn't have an effect, I would think.

What settings do I change to make FF know that I'm not on a network? Thanks in advance.

Firefox browser for Android is my favorite, but it still has many shortcomings, like you cannot use private DNS in it, there is no option of bookmark import export, you cannot move bookmarks up and down and create a group of tabs and you cannot use themes, and there is no Hindi language in the inbuilt translate, and the speed of the browser is also low and not smooth, I request you to work on whatever I have told you and implement it in the browser, thanks

Is there a way for fonts and color in replies to be default for replies only, and a different default font and color for new messages. It is kind of a pain to keep changing every time you do a reply.

Thank you, Rick

I am running on Linux. I keep downloads in ~/tmp/ and documents in ~/docs/

Both Thunderbird and Firefox are configured to save downloads/attachments in ~/tmp/ (and they do) but still when either application is started it will create a Downloads directory and occasionally also Documents. I'll delete these directories, but every now and then something triggers their creation.

What am I doing wrong? How can I stop this behavior?

TB 137.0.1 (64-bit) Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2 OS build 26100.3775 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.66.0

Was repeatedly encountering "Cannot read summary file" when opening TB. Some research indicated this issue goes back many years and can be intermittent. After much "repair folder" the issues seems to have abated. However, as part of my research I explored the user-local filesystem tree for TB for one of the larger email accounts I monitor, as in

C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<8_chars_profile_id>.default\ImapMail\<mail_server_name>\email_top_level_folder_names_as_NTFS_directory_names.

From this I discovered that with a Message Store Type of File-per-folder, TB constructs a filesystem directory tree that replicates the email folder tree, including the naming, presented by the IMAP email server. Not an unreasonable design choice but one with a potential flaw. Given that a Windows user_name can be 20 characters, an FQDN hostname can be 253 characters, and the max IMAP folder name length can be uncertain but apparently good practice is no more than 250 characters,...

• What happens when TB goes to create a deep-in-tree directory having a pathname that exceeds the Windows maximum of 260 bytes?

• Suppose this deep-in-tree directory is not originated from the TB UI but rather from a TB update scan of an IMAP server?

The user could have created IMAP folders via a Web interface with longish names in a 3 or 4 deep hierarchy not understanding the total pathname length limit in how TB echos the IMAP folder tree with a directory tree. The user then points TB at this email account and oops. Does TB fall over?

The default leading part of the TB AppData pathname above could be 93 characters alone before we get to the email server FQDN. Windows 11 Pro does offer a Group Policy setting to enable long pathnames up to 32k for manifested apps but this policy is not configured OOB.

Regards.

My email has started highlighting my IMAP having reached a maximum number and advising to 'do something advanced' Being a big thicky in such matters can anyone help please. I am not on gmail my address is dranreb@dranreb.karoo.co.uk and everything I delete disapears and not into my trash. Should I contact my local provider KCOM? Thank you Bernard PS not sure how I would look up an answer on the 'thread' if informed that there was one there.

My Thunderbird layout has changed. I use the classic view. Prior to yesterday each new message was on 1 line, now each message seems to be in a pane of its own taking up the space of about 3 lines. How do I change it back?

I have had an issue for quite some time now where I cannot set any details on my email addresses from the Account Settings screen on my Thunderbird install.

This has been an issue for quite some time I believe. The significance of the issue is that I cannot change SMTP servers because not only is the setting blank but when I select another SMTP it returns to default every time.

128.9.0esr (64-bit)

Please help! I am having to use a secondary email address for some of my clients because I cannot set up an SMTP server for them.

New in the past month where ever I click on I get this same image (Below) even in Help - down load - up-date

(This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action -)

I can X one of them closed, but they both come back when I close a website after viewing. Is there something I can do in settings to fix this? It's a recent thing that I must have changed accidentally. Thank you.

I backed up my profile to a zip file, not realizing that it would be larger than 2 megs. It is, closer to 5 megs. This, I think, means the data is lost for good. Am I right? Thanks in advance.

Dear,

At our computer shop, we assist customers with their email, and for this, we always use Thunderbird.

However, this week we encountered a problem where printing was not working.

Both the printer and the computer are functioning properly. Printing from all other platforms works fine, even when we download the attachments and print them as PDFs.

The issue occurs when we open attachments directly in Thunderbird and then click on "Print." The print preview looks correct and shows the expected content, but the printer only produces two blank A4 pages.

We also tested the "Print to PDF" option, and that too results in two blank A4 pages being saved.

We’re very curious to know how we can resolve this issue or if this might be a small bug in the program?

The program is fully up to date, by the way.

Kind regards, Mike Papenburg

Hallo. Ich habe die aktuelle Version von Thunderbird auf meinem Tablet installiert und bei der Eingabe meiner E-Mail Konten, eine Adresse 2 x eingegeben. Ich finde keine Möglichkeit die doppelte Adresse zu löschen. Wie muss ich vorgehen. Entschuldigen Sie das ich in deutsch schreibe, aber mein Englisch ist zu schlecht.

In der Hoffnung auf Hilfe, mit freundlichen grüßen,

Walter Schäffer.

Translation ...

Hello. I have the latest version of Thunderbird installed on my tablet and, when entering my email accounts, I entered an address twice. I can't find a way to delete the duplicate address. What should I do? Sorry for writing in German, but my English is too poor.

Hoping for some help, Sincerely,

Walter Schäffer.