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Dear filter specialists,

On a Windows 10 computer with TB Portable 128.6 and .7, folders can no longer be selected in the filters as ‘Run filter on’ or ‘perform these Actions’: the menu is greyed out. The phenomenon occurs with all accounts: POP and local. Various email providers, ESET virus scanner, Windows firewall, FritzBox cable router. The local account contains almost 30 GB of emails. The existing filters work as long as they do not affect the accounts or folders: for example, tagging e-mails works. Existing filters with folder-actions cannot be re-configured and no folder actions are possible when creating a new filter.

I have performed an update check and restarted Windows, changed the compression limit from 500 to 5 MB and changed a few minor settings so that the config is rewritten.

What could this be? How do I solve the problem? A workaround if necessary.

Thank you very much for your help.

I have TB setup to allow customstylesheets with userChrome and userContent.css files generated. I have userChrome setup to my liking. Now I want to modify the userContent.css file so that I can set the background color of almost all elements is #222226 except for email text, hyperlinks, and imbedded images. I have this setup now in userContent.css:

body { background-color: #222226 !important; }

{ color: white !important; /* Changes font color to white for all content */ }

This changes most elements the way I want but it also flips the color of other HTML content, embedded images for signatures and other html content so its inverted to unreadable white content with white text. Is there a way to set it up so that HTML content and images are not inverted?

TB version 140 Debian Edition on Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3

Good morning Is there a way to set up my own preferred default column layout to one that suits me I have 40+ folders and changing every one on new install and when updates are issued is a real pain I am on release 143.0.1 (64-bit) Many thanks John

I want to send messages I delete to a Trash folder on my laptop, rather than the Trash folder on the server. Is there some way to do this? I'm looking at:

Server Settings > Security Settings > When I delete a message

This only gives me the option save deleted messages somewhere on the server.

(I have given up all hope of convincing Thunderbird to download all my messages, but fixing the Trash problem will make the program at least useable, from my POV!)

I have Version 128.5.2esr (64-bit), it says it is up to date.

So I've been noticing a couple of days now that I can no longer view messages in the message pane to the right of the screen. When I click on an email in the list on the left, the top of the pane on the right shows me the To, From, subject etc, as well as a yellow bar saying "Warning: To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message." Then, nothing underneath this. Where it used to show the email contents. I do NOT want to have to double click every single email in my inbox to look at them in a separate tab. Most of what I get is not useful. I want to be able to click once and preview the email, then click Down to check the next one, and on and on the same as Thunderbird did it LAST WEEK.

Can someone help me get it back to working please? Thanks!

I recently transferred my Thunderbird email to a new Windows 11 laptop. Everything is ok, except the font size in received emails can best be described as very tiny. I've tried everything to increase the font size, but nothing helps. My screen has a resolution of 2880x 1880 Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

When I write a meesage, the send button and all the other buttons (e.g. file, edit, insert.... cannot seen. What has happened. How do I restore them so I can send and write messages?

When I have thunderbird open and click on an email so the email gets big and is off to the right so I can look at it, then I have to click on the arrow at the top left to get the top bar to scroll clear back so I can get to the inbox again. Got to be an easier way. Help pls. Thanks!

Hi All,

I'm having an issue with the font displayed in the message pane.

Below are screenshots of 2 plain text emails received by Thunderbird.

One email, created in The Bat on Windows, shows in the Courier New font, which I prefer.

The other email, created in Thunderbird on Linux, shows in some other font.

Shouldn't all plain text emails have the same font?

Also below is my Fonts... Advanced dialog box. This is a somewhat confusing screen, because it does not seem to assign fonts to specific elements in the program.

How can I have all plain text emails display with the Courier New font?

Also, how can I tell if an email is plain text or HTML? Is there some indicator in Thunderbird? In The Bat, an actual HTML icon shows as an attachment on HTML emails, and the plain text emails do not have this attachment.

And for some reason, Courier New displays very light in Linux, but darker and more readable in Windows. Is there any way to improve the quality of this font?

Thanks!

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for folder modes? For example, I normally only have "Favorite Folders" displayed but then I suddenly need access to a folder that isn't a favorite. Currently, it needs 3 mouse clicks to go and turn on "All folders" - and another three to turn them of again afterwards. It would be much easier if there was a "Toggle showing 'All Folders'" shortcut???

Thanks

Hi, I dont know what setting I have accidently changed but before I used to double click a new message in my inbox on local folders and now instead of reading it full screen now it wants to send it as an email message to someone!

Any ideas to put it back to just read the email and not compose a message with it?

Thanks.

I dont remember having this 'new message template' thing before when I right clicked on a message in my inbox , maybe thats what the issue is?

Is there any way I can prevent Mozilla from installing/enabling more AI features on my Firefox browser in the future?

I do not want AI running on my machine. I do not want AI integration in my browser. I understand I will still run into AI in the wilds of the internet, but I especially do not want these features enabled ON MY OWN MACHINE in an update without me specifically opting into them. Installing and enabling this without user opt-in communicates clear disrespect to the users.

I did a cursory search here for similar questions and Mozilla staff appear to be stating there will be no AI in Firefox unless the user specifically enables it, and it is as simple as disabling them via settings if "accidentally" enabled. This was not my experience, and it is alarming to see false information provided to users .

I have found other sources indicating the following must be set to false in about:config in order to disable browser-side AI/AI integration: browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.chat.shortcuts browser.ml.chat.shortcuts.custom browser.ml.chat.sidebar browser.ml.checkForMemory browser.ml.enable browser.ml.linkPreview.shift

Is that all of them, will these disable ALL of the AI in Firefox?

Are there any other settings I need to set to false to ensure no AI is either running on my machine or the browser is not integrating AI functionality from third parties?

Is there any way to ensure Mozilla doesn't force AI features to be enabled without my say-so (again)?

Are there any privacy-minded browsers comparable to Firefox that DO respect their users with regards to forcing AI on them? It may be time to jump ship.

Hey,

Just recently the Firefox Focus app I use for quick searches decided to change the white text of the recommended results go gray in dark theme. This makes the text hard to read. I've tried clearing cache, reinstalling, force quitting and changing the theme on the app and on my phone. How can I get the text back to white?

I want to be able to permanently delete (equivalent of Shift-Delete) emails using a filter. Currently I can't do that. Selecting the delete option in a filter just moves the email to the trash. That means I have to handle the email twice in order to get rid of it.

Other email clients offer this feature. Why doesn't Thunderbird.

It makes sense that you might want your signature text to change depending on who you are communicating with (employer, business, friend, etc).

In Outlook you can enter several signature texts, identified by a name. I sure would like to have that in Thunderbird!

Another possibility would be to circulate among several signature texts, just to "keep it fresh".

Thanks for your consideration.

Open "+ new message" to write an email. The window does NOT have window control options (File, edit, view, insert, format, options, tools, help) OR email control options (Send, encrypt, spelling, save, contacts, attach).

How can I get these things back? Only happens when trying to send a new email with "+ new message"

Using Thunderbird 128.8.0esr 32 bit Windows 2025-02 Ver 22H2 for X64 KB5052077

Images attached of problem window from the problem machine and from a different machine where it works.