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Post Posted March 3rd, 2017, 3:42 am

Hi,

I set up Thunderbird and I love it! Couple of questions though,

1. Is there a way to compose a new message in a new tab as well as reply to emails in a new tab on thunderbird instead of dealing with the popups?

2. Is there a way to have a firefox browser and a thunderbird browser side by side in a tab or tab like situation? lol

Thank you so much for any help I can get in regards to these questions!! :)
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Post Posted March 3rd, 2017, 4:15 am

Moving to Thunderbird Support...

Thunderbird is not a "browser."
It's an email client.
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Post Posted March 3rd, 2017, 5:13 am

At this time there is no provision for running the compose window in a tab rather than in a separate window.

Thunderbird is not a "browser."


There was (is?) an extension that provided for website access within TB but it has not been maintained in a long time. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... derbrowse/

But then running TB under Windows (or on a Mac) does seem to make such tweaks unnecessary as you can run TB and Firefox side by side in separate windows, approximating a tabbed interface.
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Post Posted March 3rd, 2017, 5:26 am

Just for ref;...
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Post Posted March 3rd, 2017, 8:06 am

inomniaparatus-r4a wrote:Hi,

I set up Thunderbird and I love it! Couple of questions though,

1. Is there a way to compose a new message in a new tab as well as reply to emails in a new tab on thunderbird instead of dealing with the popups?



That is bug 449299 and it isn't assigned to anyone to work on at this time.

The ability to create Events in a Calendar tab (coming in version 52.0-I think) gives me hope that work can begin on that bug. As per comment 189, I may pose that question in the newsgroup, or bring it up on IRC. :-"

BTW if you want Options/Preferences in a tab you can toggle "mail.preferences.inContent" to "true" in the Config Editor.
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Post Posted March 4th, 2017, 7:24 am

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Post Posted March 4th, 2017, 7:56 am

Okay thanks :(

And if there was a way to compose a new message in a tab, reply's forward, etc should all be in tabs as well. But oh well, I appreciate your help

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