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Today’s new Thunderbird.
There is a Chat feature, but the following is coming up, which I have no idea how to go about it, any help greatly appreciated:

Use /msg NickServ HELP for a NickServ command listing.

Secondly, I have been able to reduce the Font size down to a minimum of 9, but the two top toolbars and also the bottom one are huge.
Is there a way to reduce them please?

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You can try right clicking one of the toolbars and selecting Customize Toolbar…, and in the customization screen, selecting a different option under Density.

If you do not see the option “Compact (not supported),” which is the preferred setting (and one that Mozilla foolishly decided to get rid of, and then when people wanted it back, Mozilla gave in, but petulantly hid it behind that pref and put that “not supported” bit there), you can go to Settings, then scroll all the way down to Config Editor, then search for the pref

browser.compactmode.show

and set it to true.

Then you can go back to the Customize screen and select Compact (not supported).

If that is selected and it is still not to your liking, in the Config Editor, search for

layout.css.devPixelsPerPx

and enter a fractional value (less than 1, like perhaps 0.85) to shrink the UI. You can play with the values and see what looks the best for you.

Hopefully one of these will accomplish what you wish!

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Thank you for your detailed reply.

You can go to Settings, then scroll all the way down to Config Editor, then search for the pref

browser.compactmode.show

and set it to 1.

I tried and got as far as these two attached screen shots, an option to change numbers did not appear. What do I do next please, as excuse me for asking?

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Oops! Sorry about that. 1 is true, 0 is false. I knew booleans used ‘true’ and ‘false’ in the config editor, or at least I would have if I had stopped to think about it, but I am so used to 0 and 1 being false and true that in my mind “yes” and “true” translate to 1, so that is what I wrote. I should have said “true.” I changed it in the original text to avoid future confusion.

It’s set to “true” in the screenshot, so the “compact (not supported)” option should be showing in the customize toolbar screen.

 

 

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Thank you.
So it is currently set at True.
Then I have gone to Left hamburger icon. View, Toolbars, Customise, two attached screen shots.
That just in itself is an indication of just how bad/big this page is, needing to screen shots to capture it.
And no the “compact (not supported)” sign/icon is not appearing.

So I have moved on to layout.css.devPixelsPerPx.
Set it to to 0.80.
First of all the whole page reduced in size, not solely the two two bars at the top of the screen
The result was small, so small that I could barely read the actual messages headings.
Now up to 1.50 and things are looking a lot better now.

The two top toolbars are an acceptable size.
But that in itself did not resolving the actual messages size, to do that I had to go to View, Font size, Increase Font size, to get the messages to an acceptable size.
Got there, but boy this is all messy.
Thank you.

Before I go some other issues please.
The scroll bar on the right hand side, is now so small and narrow it’s become an issue.
Sometimes I cannot even find a scroll bar on some links.
The menu on the right hand button mouse switch, has got so long you have to scroll down to get to Delete message.
Is there any way safely of deleting so many options on this menu?

Later.
Now when I click on any messages, they have increased to an unacceptable size.
Regardless of my efforts to change this, I have not been successful.
Potential solutions please?

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All resolved, check out this link to see how it was done:

How can I please reduce the size of the menu and toolbars in Thunderbird “Supernova” 115.2.2 :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1424021

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Glad it is fixed.

FWIW, you can zoom the text in the message pane with CTRL + mouse wheel,  and TB 115 seems to do a pretty good job of remembering how you set it.

For the scrollbars, you can change this pref:

widget.<wbr />non-native-theme.<wbr />scrollbar.<wbr />style

Try out some different numbers in there, in the range of about 0 to 7.

 

 

 

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Ascaris wrote:

Glad it is fixed.

FWIW, you can zoom the text in the message pane with CTRL + mouse wheel,  and TB 115 seems to do a pretty good job of remembering how you set it.

For the scrollbars, you can change this pref:

widget.<wbr />non-native-theme.<wbr />scrollbar.<wbr />style

Try out some different numbers in there, in the range of about 0 to 7.

 

 

 

Thunderbird Scrollbar Width.
To anyone having this problem in windows 11, go to settings, visual effects, and you will see an option to turn scrollbar on or off. Dont know why it would be off, but putting it to on solved the issue with Thunderbird for me.

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