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Hello,

I am a super happy user of Thunderbird calendar since many years.

Now that my kids have a lot of activities I am facing an annoying display issue with the upper part of the calendar in the Week view showing all days event : it is too small to show all events at once and hence proposes a scrollbar to navigate inside it (the attached image shows it for Tuesday May 13)

To solve that, I would be super happy just to select the "horizontal line" separating the all day events pane from the one below and then drag it to increase the height of the all day events pane. Unfortunately this is not possible.

So my question is : how can I increase the height of all day events pane so that I can see all my all days events at once ?

Thank you very much for your help,

I see it as Thunderbird hijacking the resources of my computer to run Firefox and take me to the donation website. I'm fine with the request for money in the Thunderbird screen, I can navigate away from that. Don't open programs other than Thunderbird before I require them.

I use Thunderbird for email and Edge for my browser. Unfortunately the icons for the two are so similar it's difficult to tell them apart. I'd like to suggest that Thunderbird/Mozilla allow users to substitute their own icons for the running programs if they don't want to use the default one.

Hello,

The latest version, 128.10.0esr, was recently released, and one of the changes is:

Changed color override defaults with high contrast mode on macOS and Linux

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.10.0esr/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes/&locale=en-US&version=128.10.0&channel=esr&os=Darwin&buildid=20250425031534

I use dark mode, but I prefer to view the email body in light mode, as this is typically the sender’s default formatting. To achieve this, I previously configured: • Settings → General → Fonts & Colors → Colors • Set Text to black and Background to white • Enabled “Override the colors specified by the content with my selections above:” and set it to “Only with High Contrast themes”

However, since this update, this setting no longer works. Now, the only workaround is to manually click the “Turn dark mode off” button for each email, which does work. But it’s inconvenient to do this every time.

Is there a way to disable dark mode for all email bodies by default, so I don’t need to click the button each time?

Thank you!

Yours,

I had set my Ubuntu 22.04 browser to Chromium for a while, but decided that all my cookies are in Firefox so I chose to switch back. Full reset after power-off, of course.

My Environment Variable $BROWSER is now set to Firefox, but Thunderbird apparently has a mind of its own. ;-) It still opens or switches to Chromium with every web link executed.

I've explored the ~/.thunderbird/ directory but see nothing there.

What am I missing that I need to be educated about?

Thanks in advance!

 -- Don Wilde

There are 2 questions in the Q&A section without any reply. I have no idea what has transpired since this morning when the dates were perfect. I went out for about 3 hours and on return the clock is showing a 12-hour clock without am or pm. So searching by date and time is a laborious process. I cannot find anything in settings relating to 12 or 24. What am i missing? Thanks

When I click on the minimize "-" in top right corner of Thunderbird it does not minimize to the bottom left task bar as other programs do, but instead goes to the system tray (bottom right). Online help suggested I go to "Settings-General-Language and Appearance" and un-check "Hide system window titlebar". This appears to make no difference. How do I get this back to what it used to be?

For some time now I have had 2 folders for my sent mail. One is called "Sent" and the other one is called "Sent Mail". I have tried to delete one but to no avail. They both have the same files in them.

I also have 2 folders for "Drafts". Same name on both. How can I get rid of these extra files. I've attached a screenshot. I am running Win 11 Pro.

Thanks in advance.

Loopy

I have about 100 folders in Thunderbird with some four levels deep. My problem is that every time a click on a folder, if I slide the folder up or down just a bit while clicking, it will move the folder into a sub-folder of the adjacent folder. Is there any way to prevent this by locking the folder order or disabling this function?

Hello, my grandfather uses Thunderbird and has trouble seeing when the text is too small, so I changed the font size in the settings, but this only applies to the window for reading the email and not to the entire application (example below, or on the right there is a font that my grandfather can read but in the titles of emails or menus he has trouble). Thanks in advance!

I have several email accounts linked in Thunderbird. All, but one (Gmail), displays a confirmation screen when I attempt to empty the trash folder. How do I turn on the Empty Trash Confirmation for Gmail?

Note: When the Empty Trash Confirmation is displayed there is a checkbox to "Don't Ask Me Again". I may have accidentally clicked this dialog box for my Gmail Trash Folder but I can't find how to bring back the Confirmation.

Thank you for your help!!

Thunderbird 128.9.2esr (64-bit) openSUSE Tumbleweed

How do I change the ::selection background css for text that appears in the mailnews reader and editor views? I am happy to use userChrome.css or userContent.css. Currently the selected background is too dark against my chosen dark background color. I simply need to lighten it a bit. I've been through the about:config pages looking at "color" and there isn't a setting I can find. So it appears I will need to use CSS in userChrome.css to accomplish this. I need to know what the magic incantation is to do this. I get it will involve the ::selection pseudo-element, but which tag to apply it to, any special namespace? All?

An example of the selection color I am talking about is shown in this image (attached)

Preferably, this solution should continue to work when openSUSE updates to 136/7, etc..

I successfully subscribed to an online .ics file but I found the resulting calendar entries inadequate and I want to unsubscribe but I can't figure out how to do that. I've tried searching for instructions but haven't found any.

I just installed Thunderbird on Deepin Linux today. And I forgot which button I wrongly clicked. As a result, my thunderbird's appearance looks messy.

How to set it back to the default view without reinstall it?

I am looking forward to the answer.

After 20+ years my email service has closed, and I have kept many old emails on Thunderbird. If I start reading an old email, a Thunderbird message pop up on screen every few seconds stating that it cannot connect to the dead email service. This is a real nuisance as the messages cover the screen over time, and each one needs to be separately deleted. Can this Thunderbird response be switched off?

I wish to keep using Thunderbird for the new email service, but only if I can fix this issue.

Bill

When I receive an email with double line spacing I can't find a way to alter this to single line spacing. I'd like to be able to change from one to the other at will. M

Last time thunderbird used to list the message by column. Refer to diagram 1 middle section. Now they list it in up down. Refer to diagram 2. Anyone know how to change back to list by column ? I am now using ver 137.0.2 (64 bit).

I have about 30 messages in my Thunderbird inbox, but when I backup my profile it backs up some 700 messages, most of which were deleted long ago. Clearly deleting them doesn't actually delete them at all. How do I solve this please? Any ideas?

Thunderbird 128.9.2 POP3 mailbox Windows 11 Pro

Thanks Mike Phillips