Thunderbird 115 UI mods...

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Thunderbird 115 UI mods...

#1 Post by CharlesV »

Thunderbird SuperNova 115 is pretty darn nice, and it incorporates a lot of cool new features including a pretty nice new look!

However, for those of us that prefer things like Window Title Bars, Application Menus at the TOP of the application and a few more eye candy things on applications... these mods put the world right again.

---- Show Window Title Bar
- Edit | Settings | General
- Scroll down to 'Language & Appearance' section & Window Layout
- uncheck the checkbox 'Hide system window titlebar' to make titlebar appear


---- Move Menu Bar above Unified Toolbar
- Edit | Settings | General
- Scroll to bottom and click on 'Config Editor' button
- In search type : legacy
and look for the line: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
- Click on the far right arrow type icon to toggle from 'false' to 'TRUE'

- Back in Thunderbird
- Help | Troubleshooting Information
- in 'Application Basics' - Profile Folders - click on 'Open Folder'
A new window opens showing the contents of your profile name folder.
- Exit Thunderbird

-- Create a userChrome.css file
- In the 'profile name ' folder create a new folder named 'chrome'.
( important ! all lower case. )
- Create a text file named: userChrome.css
- Copy the following text and paste it into the file:

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@import url("chrome://messenger/content/unifiedtoolbar/unifiedToolbarWebextensions.css");

/* Position Menu Bar above Unified Toolbar */
#toolbar-menubar {
order: -1 !important;
}

- Save the file as 'userChrome.css'
- Start Thunderbird

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Re: Thunderbird 115 UI mods...

#2 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Image size ;) Can you adjust that, thanks!
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Re: Thunderbird 115 UI mods...

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Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:23 pm Image size ;) Can you adjust that, thanks!
Sorry, I cant seem to find a happy medium between small and large ;-p
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:laugh: Ideal is when you need to pet it to get it larger ;)
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Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:07 pm :laugh: Ideal is when you need to pet it to get it larger ;)
Bahahahaha!!!
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Eadwine Rose wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:07 pm :laugh: Ideal is when you need to pet it to get it larger ;)
Did you say what I think you said, or am I just a dirty old man?
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Just me having a wee bit of fun ;) And yeah I did ;)
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#8 Post by m_pav »

Interesting. I already had a Chrome folder and a userChrome.css file in it dating back to 10/11/11 !
Backed it up by renaming it, created a new file, restarted TB and the old look was back.
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m_pav wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:09 pm Interesting. I already had a Chrome folder and a userChrome.css file in it dating back to 10/11/11 !
Backed it up by renaming it, created a new file, restarted TB and the old look was back.
Very cool. On of the things I seriously love about Thunderbird is being able to push things around. And being a mozilla product, if you cant find how to do something, then Ctrl+Shift+I and you have at your fingertips a very good mechanism to test and try !
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