Auto hide tab-bar in Mozilla Thunderbird 3
December 9th, 2009
Today Mozilla launched a new version of it’s fine e-mail client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3, as it is called, includes a lot of new features, such as a very quick search, great integration with Spotlight, and tabs. Tabs is a feature that we generally associates with browsers such as Firefox and Safari, but it’s actually very useful in an e-mail client as well. If you for example double-click a message, it will open in a new tab. Searching will also bring up a new tab.
The problem with tabs in an e-mail client, is that you generally don’t need them for a longer period. In Firefox I usually have 10 to 15 tabs open at all times, but in Thunderbird I usually stick with one. Since the tab-bar takes up quite a lot of valuable horizontal space, it would make sense to hide the tab-bar when you don’t need it. Firefox has a nice feature called “auto hide”. It makes the tab-bar disappear when the window only have one tab open. I’ve browsed through Thunderbird’s settings window, but haven’t found anything similar. Fortunately, I’ve found a “hidden” setting that allows you to turn on auto-hiding.
Here’s how:
- Open Thunderbird’s Preferences window (Tools -> Options on Windows, Edit -> Preferences on Linux and Thunderbird -> Preferences on Mac)
- Click on “Advanced”
- Click on the “Config Editor” button (which is under the “General” tab)
- Search for “mail.tabs.autoHide”
- Double-click on the setting so that it becomes “true” (and the font changes to bold)
Voilà!
The Configuration Editor in Thunderbird
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Categories: English, Teknologier
great!! Thank you very much.
Nice!!!!! This is just what I was looking for!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for this – I thought we were going to be stuck with this annoyance forever!
Thank you very much.. that should have been easy to find but I thought there should have been fox-like button if that could be done. Huge improvement to my small screen laptop, thx! :]
I am using it on an Acer Aspire one and any vertical real estate is useful.
Thank you very much.
My netbook and I thank you!