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How do I change the spacing on the message list?

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isauras
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Thunderbird just upgraded on me and the message list is spaced so tight is giving me anxiety. I tried the Density option but it adds more space than needed and it also adds it to the account list. I just want to add a bit more spacing to the message list.

I saw some posts about editing the css but I couldn't find a CSS file anywhere, plus those posts were old so I'm guessing it was for a different version? Or maybe it took this long for my Thunderbird to update?

Thanks in advance.

Thunderbird just upgraded on me and the message list is spaced so tight is giving me anxiety. I tried the Density option but it adds more space than needed and it also adds it to the account list. I just want to add a bit more spacing to the message list. I saw some posts about editing the css but I couldn't find a CSS file anywhere, plus those posts were old so I'm guessing it was for a different version? Or maybe it took this long for my Thunderbird to update? Thanks in advance.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1423577#answer-1602941

isauras
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Ok, so I followed those instructions, but it gets to this part:

Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

Where do I find this? I checked everywhere I could think of and cannot find it. If it makes any difference my version is 115.4.1

sfhowes
sfhowes
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Click the 3-bar AppMenu icon in the upper right, Settings, select General in the left pane, scroll to the bottom to find Config. editor. Or, type editor into the Settings Search. Type legacy into the editor search to find the desired preference, toggle it to true.

https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html

isauras
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Ok, so that so deep in there that there was no way I could have found that on my own. Thank you. :)

So I know it's reading the CSS because I can change the color, font and stuff like that, but the spacing is still the same. I changed it to ridiculous sizes and nothing works, it's still quite compact.

This is the code I'm using:

/* threads pane bg, font */ table[is="tree-view-table"]{ background: white !important; font-family: Calibri, sans serif !important; font-size: 14px !important; color: black !important; }

/* threads pane line height */ html|tr[is="thread-row"] { 

 height: 28px !important;}


/* folder pane font, bg */

  1. folderPane {

/* background-color: #87CEFA !important; */ font-size: 14px !important; font-family: Calibri, sans serif !important; color: black !important; }

oh I don't know why it changed the #folderPane to a list item

Modified by isauras