change direction for mail delete
Some time back I learned that going to config and changing "mail.delete" from FALSE to TRUE would change the way deletion worked so that after deleting a message the cursor would move to the next most recent message instead of the subsequent one. I've now decided that indeed I preferred the default setting of FALSE. I have changed it back on my two PCs, both running Win11 24H2 and TBird 128.14. On one PC the direction was changed back to the default direction, i.e. go to the subsequent message. On the other one it still moves to the prior message. I think I have done exactly the same thing on both PCs. What do you think I might be doing wrong?
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The relevant preference is mail.delete_matches_sort_order, which defaults to false. The PCs might have different default sort orders, i.e. descending vs. ascending.
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The relevant preference is mail.delete_matches_sort_order, which defaults to false. The PCs might have different default sort orders, i.e. descending vs. ascending.
Thank you. Right you are. On the PC that was working as I wanted, both mail.delete and mail.delete_matches_sort_order were set to false but on the other one mail.delete was false and the other one was true. Now it is working fine.
What does mail.delete control?
I don't see any pref. that is just mail.delete. mail.delete_matches_sort_order controls where the selection moves, as in your original post.
From https://kb.mozillazine.org/Mail_and_news_settings
"True: If you set View -> Sort by -> Descending when you delete a message it will move the selection up to the next most recent message (rather than to the next oldest message). False(default): Does nothing."
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