To the OP: I hope you don’t mind me asking another question as a fellow Thunderbird beginner. If you do, please let me know and I can start a new thread.
I am using Thunderbird version 146.0. I press Ctrl+k, type in a search string, and press Enter. After doing so, I am not sure how to get to the list of search results. I’ve tried pressing F6 and Tab a bunch without success. The first Tab after the search field takes me to “chrome://messenger/content/glodaFacetView.xhtml grouping.” How do I get to the results list?
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Given Ctrl+k isn’t working, I’m curious if you have an alternate, efficient method for searching emails in Thunderbird? If you use Ctrl+Shift+k or Ctrl+Shift+f, are you able to search across all cemail components (subject, message, sender name, etc.) efficiently? I am just looking for something comparable to typing in the Search mail edit box on Gmail web.
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Ctrl+shift+F lets you search across something like 17 different fields/combinations, and you can apply multiple search filters if you want to, and while ot cleanest interface, it's definitely usable - simple example:
Located in inbox message listing
ctrl+shift+F
tab over to drop-down to select filter element, and arrow down to subject field contains
tab over to next drop-down which lets you select if you want field to contain, or work with whole field match
tab over to value entry field and enter in short string
if you just want to use a single search value, hit alt+S now
alternatively, tab to button to add search criteria and then shift+tab back through other fields to apply multiple criteria - can repeat this process
once done, if you used multiple search criteria, when on last one, hit alt+S
wait a little while - it tells me when it has returned results, and how many
shift+tab 4 times and you should land on list of messages, hitting enter will open the message up - I have thunderbird set to open messages in new windows anyway - and hitting escape will land back in search results list
hitting escape from search results will close it, and should then revert back to normal message list
There are also a lot of other things in that search interface, like checkboxes to specify if it should search locally or on server, should search sub-folders, etc., etc. - play around with it, but it works, even if there are no shortcut keys to set focus to specific aspects.
Have been working like this for quite a while now, and am currently running thunderbird 146, with thunderbird+ g5 add-on under NVDA 2025.3.2.
Had also myself never even heard of or paid attention to the filter search via ctrl+K, or ctrl+shift+K, but anyway.
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