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make a default setting for Preview pane : OFF

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The Preview pane is ON every time I start Thunderbird. I know how to toggle it off (→F8), but how can I turn in OFF by default?

Version 68.4.1 Build ID 20200110142707 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 OS Linux 4.15.0-74-generic

The Preview pane is ON every time I start Thunderbird. I know how to toggle it off (→F8), but how can I turn in OFF by default? Version 68.4.1 Build ID 20200110142707 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 OS Linux 4.15.0-74-generic

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If TB is not starting with the same layout it had on last exit, open the profile folder and delete or rename session.json. Help/Troubleshooting, click Open Directory to open the profile folder, close TB, edit the file, restart TB.

If that doesn't work, there may be some app that is resetting TB preferences. CCleaner on Windows is an example.

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If TB is not starting with the same layout it had on last exit, open the profile folder and delete or rename session.json. Help/Troubleshooting, click Open Directory to open the profile folder, close TB, edit the file, restart TB.

If that doesn't work, there may be some app that is resetting TB preferences. CCleaner on Windows is an example.