Resolved Removing a Toolbar

Hi All, .......... This is a repeat of a former post (Remove a Toolbar 9/7/10) that has expired. I have installed Windows 7 and intend to use Thunderbird V. 3.1.6 in Win7. The annoying toolbar is still there and previously Broni asked If I would include a screen shot of the toolbar in question. When I follow his instruction, it doesn't happen. Paint never opens. The best I can do is to give the location of what I've called the Inbox toolbar. The first toolbar starts on the left with File,Edit,View,etc, below that is the Second toolbar with Get Mail, Write, Address Book,etc. and below that is the Inbox toolbar with a series of the first few letters of opened e-mails extending to the right side of the mail screen. As an example one e-mail I have is a survey request from Time Magazine which I have had occasion to open several times. Because of this the Inbox toolbar has six small sections with the letters TIM... in each section. Also, if I close TB on the TIM... section that is where TB opens the next time I want to see my new mail. This means that I have to move to the left through (in my present case) 16 sections of partial subject words to the Inbox.

As I said in my earlier post, there is also redundancy in that the normal listing of mail under Subject-From, the partial subject sections and a drop-down list through the down arrow on the right side of the screen. So I'll as the question again: Does anyone know how to remove this obnoxious toolbar? Please.

 

I have no experience with Thunderbird but might be able to suggest something. Was this unwanted toolbar in Thunderbird when you first used it. If not, then it will be an add-on. Somewhere on a drop down menu, possibly tools, you should be able to get into the list of add-ons and delete it. Try Googling Thunderbird add-ons.

I am sure someone with more experience of Thunderbird will help if that doesn't.

 

markmadras, ....... I can assure you that the toolbar under discussion is not an add-on and quite frankly I'm surprised that others have not complained about it. Thank you for your interest.

 

I have used Thunderbird for several years and have never encountered a "Tool Bar" as you have described. Some time back TBird introduced "Tabbed Email" that permits you to have several e-mails open at one time and each is identified as a tab on the line to the right of the "Inbox" tab. You can do the same in any of the subfolders. Very similar to the tabbed browsing available in Firefox, IE, and Google Chrome.

I was able to create what you described by opening an e-mail, going back to the inbox and opening the same e-mail, back to the inbox and opening again until I had opened the same e-mail 6 or 8 times. See screenshot. Then I had a series of tabs with a few letters of the subject in each appearing to the right of the Inbox tab. Simply close out all the duplicate tabs. Can't see any need to have an e-mail open in more than one tab. If I've missed something here, let me know.

 

does this toolbar have the words "Quick Filter" and the icons of a star, dot, a head, color bars, and a paper clip? If so, then click on View, Toolbars, and quick filter bar. If its not that, then click on Customize, and remove the bar by clicking on it and moving it off screen.

Otherwise, we're all going around in circles without an image of what you're talking about.

 

Hi All, ............. In looking for a solution to this problem I noticed the word Tab in a Mozillazine article. Could what I had been calling the Inbox toolbar really be a Tab toolbar? With Thunderbird open, I went into about:config through Tools, Options, General tab and clicked on the Config Editor button and "Promised to be careful" to bring up the about:config screen. I scanned down the "Preference Name" column to the likely words mail.tabs.autohide and then toggled the false-true words to true. After closing all the screens including TB and then reopening TB the (unnecessary, to me) toolbar was gone. Not only the frustration of moving through all the Tabs but also gaining the unneeded toolbar space had been accomplished.

To all who replied, my appreciative thanks and for those who want to remove this unneeded toolbar, I hope this helps.

 

A Correction

Excuse my goof, but in my previous post I made as mistake in getting you to the Config Editor button. The path should be Tools, Options and the Advanced Tab not the General tab.