How to hide the Tab Bar when only one tab is open.
John Corliss
In Thunderbird 3 the tab bar is always shown. Even if there's only one
tab. If you want to save some horizontal space on your screen, you can
configure Thunderbird 3 to hide the tab bar when only one tab is being
shown.
Do this by opening the Preferences and selecting the Advanced tab.
If you're not already on the General tab (under the Advanced tab),
select it.
Click on the Config Editor... button (near the bottom) and click through
any warnings.
Find the mail.tabs.autoHide entry and double click it so that the value
changes from False to True.
Close the config editing window.
Once you make this change, the Thunderbird 3 tab bar will be hidden
until you have multiple tabs open.
IMO, this should be the default setting for experienced users. I can
understand why the developers chose not to make it the default setting
however.
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John Corliss
Wilf
In the config (tools / options / advanced / general Tab / press "config
editor")
use the filter box to find the mail.tabs.autoHide preference. If it is
set to False, double-click it to set it to True. If it doesn't exist,
right-click in the window, to set up a new boolean preference name.
Name it mail.tabs.autoHide and set its value to True.
This option hides the tab bar if there is only one tab
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Wilf
John Corliss
I was just quoting what somebody else wrote, but you're right. That's
how I would have written it too, i.e. briefer and to the point.
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John Corliss
Wilf
Actually, I didn't read your post properly and failed to see you were
telling us how to do it rather than asking if it could be done!
Your embarrassedly ...
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Wilf
John Corliss
LOL Ain't this a great communications medium? 80)>
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John Corliss