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Thunderbird (157.0.1 (64-bit)) write toolbar missing.

All things are correctly configured, as mentioned in this article, and nothing is working in making the Write (Compose) Formatting toolbar appear again.

Everything is set to compose in HTML format and the keyboard commands mentioned in other articles and so forth do nothing.

Is is perhaps a corrupted profile setting file somewhere? Is there a Config Editor setting that needs to/can be changed ?

Please advise, soonest, thank you in advance.

1. 1 there should be an option to put the menu with the delete button at the bottom, not top.
2. 2 Unified inbox is great, but why not unified everything. Unified spam,.sent, deleted etc. Blue mail does it and it's very useful.

Those are the 2 main things. Anything else is not important but nice. E.g.

1. 3 Options for a bit more colour or ability to colour things, like accounts or senders.
2. 4 One click unsubscribe for emails

Other than that it's utterly awesome and feels very stable, unlike the new release of Blue Mail.

Hello,

Since updating to Thunderbird 139, I’ve encountered a persistent issue with the dark theme in the reply composer. When replying to HTML messages, the text appears black on a dark background, making it nearly unreadable.

This issue did not occur in Thunderbird 138 — nothing else changed on my system except the automatic update.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

- Verified that toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets is set to true in about:config.

- Created and edited a userContent.css file inside the active profile folder.

- Used various CSS rules targeting messengercompose.xhtml to override text and background colors (e.g. forcing color: #ddd and background-color: #000).

-Tried resetting composition preferences like msgcompose.background_color and msgcompose.text_color in prefs.js.

- Set Thunderbird to use plain text composition, which works — but this is only a temporary workaround.

- Ensured that no conflicting extensions (e.g. DeepDark) are enabled.

-Confirmed the issue happens even with a clean profile. - Manually set the default text and background colors to white on black in the composition settings — but replies still render with black text on black background.

The problem seems to be that Thunderbird 139 overrides the user-defined dark theme or does not apply CSS properly in replies.

Is this a known regression? Is there any workaround to enforce dark-compatible colors in HTML reply composition without switching to plain text?

Thanks for your help.

Daniele

Hi

I'm not a fan of Outlook (therefor I have now changes to Thunderbird) but I do miss the settings with e.g. delete bottom in the mail address (so easy to use when you don' have to move your mouse half the way over the screen) and making a rule so different mail goes directly into their folder and a clear marking of read or not and several more...

Is there an add or setting which brings Thunderbird close to outlook in settings and options. I mean it would make sense to take the best from...

best Max

I am going to deploy Firefox ESR in an environment where the default topsites provided by the top-sites.json included in omni.ja (namely Wikipedia, youtube and reddit) are not desirable, and I want to provide my own. I cannot find a way to do so.

Setting the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.default.sites preference through the policies.json file does not work (the pref gets loaded but it does not influence the actual default topsites, which is not surprising since the default value of this pref has nothing to do with the actual default topsites).

Note that I am not seeking to remove the topsites from the homepage entirely (as would be achieved through the FirefoxHome/TopSites policy), I want to change the default ones.

I tried creating my own top-sites.json in /lib/firefox-esr/browser/ where omni.ja resides, but to no avail.

how do I click ok to do this? Double-click the browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo preference to display a dialog where you can enter the desired value, which in your case might be 0 and then click OK. I have an HP desktop running windows 11 and have been unable to prevent history from keeping recently closed tabs.

I have Thunderbird 145.xx and I HATE message threading (conversation view). I have set 'mailnews.default_view_flags' = 0 but it is not stopping new mail from coming in and being displayed in conversation view. (UGH!!!!)

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoying feature?

When I click an email open, More than HALF the screen is taken up by a fixed Header. This leaves only 2" high to read the email. Can I change this and get a page to read the mail? I do not half a page to see date and time etc. an no space to read the mail. Its terrible!

I had to reinstall everything after a Windows glitch. I always liked to have Thunderbird show a list of my emails with a window below to show the content of emails I selected in the list. But now I can't find anything in settings to allow me to do that.

When I use ChatGPT in the Firefox sidebar, I can open a conversation normally. However, when I hide the sidebar and then show it again, ChatGPT leaves the conversation I had open and returns to the main page.

The conversation is not deleted from my history, but I have to find and reopen it every time I hide the sidebar.

Is there a setting that allows the sidebar to keep the same ChatGPT conversation open after hiding and reopening it? Is this normal behavior, or could it be a Firefox bug?

I am using the latest version of Firefox on Windows 11.

Something like this question has been asked so many times, searching for other's answers has become useless. The answers vary over the years and Thunderbird version numbers, not to mention that I can't even find documentation from Mozilla on this topic (official method of changing font size for average user; official list of css keywords, their format, and examples of use; etc.).

I am trying to increase the size of the Thunderbird fonts—not the ones used to display an email, but the ones used to show my list of accounts, mailboxes, and folders and the list of emails I have received (Table View, not Card View). For what its worth, I've already changed the font magnification to 1.5x.

I set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true, and created a chrome folder in my profile directory. In it I put this userChrome.css:

/* Set font size in folder pane */ treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text { font-size: 18pt !important; }

/* Set font size in message list page */ treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text { font-size: 22pt !important; }

However, restarting Thunderbird (multiple times with various font sizes) shows no changes. What do I do to change my font sizes? (The average user shouldn't even need to know about profiles or style sheets!)

I positively DESPISE the new Thunderbird. 1) I cannot view my my emails in the manner that has worked so well for over 20 years. 2) In order to see the new emails, I have to scroll past 3 billion old emails to see the newest ones. 3) Even worse, if I don't delete the current viewed email, I have to scroll to the left, past the 3 billion old emails (that I have to save and have current, to get to the "origin" so that I can click on the NEXT ONE TO READ!. 4) I can no longer get T'bird to throw away 'banned' senders that were previously automatically moved to the 'junk' pile without my having to waste time dealing with their ads yet AGAIN. 5) Can't seem to get emails sorted by date, subject or what have you like before.

I want my old T'bird interface back.

David Merchant (<redacted>@hiwaay.net & <redacted>@hiwaay.net)

Dear Thunderbird:

I have my favorite font and it has a check mark beside it. However, when replying to an email, there is no check mark and it is more difficult to find.

Would it be possible to have the check mark there all the time ?

Or, would it be possible to have the chosen font highlghited, perhaps in some bright color ?

Or, would it be possible to have the chosen font placed at the top of the list ?

Or, would it be possible to have all incoming and outgoing emails automatically change to the chosen font ?

Thank you for your consideration.

Pip Spaull

When I originate a new message in one of my three accounts it automatically includes a BCC address that I don't want. It does not happen when I am using my other accounts. The unwanted address is identical to a group address that I often use for BCCs, but is in a red box and if I leave it there the message cannot be sent. If I just delete that unwanted address everything works as it should. Where would I find and remove something that seems to be a default address on one account?

'how to get clicking on an email address goes to thunderbird... rather than outlook win10

I can't see how to change email defaults //// esp using the qrz page...

Windows 10 Pro went to a black screen while I was editing a file. Thunderbird was running in the background. I had to do a hard re-boot. When I restarted Thunderbird, the Inbox presentation was different. See the attached file. How do I get the correct presentation back?

I tried bringing back a backup version of my profile (the whole folder tree). The presentation was OK this time but emails were lost. So, I brought back the corrupted(?) profile in order to get my recent emails.

I can't seem to get Thunderbird on Linux Mint to work. Everything font related is a mess. I don't know what default Thunderbird uses when it doesn't know a font but the setting is unreadable. I've messed with a ton of font settings but nothing seems to change anything. Note if I copy the garbage and paste it into a notepad, it is totally readable but there appears to be no way to change this default in Thunderbird. Please help.