The only major difference compared to TB68 is that now with TB78 there can be multiple recipient addresses per line. Wrt to/cc/bcc, you can easily change between them by right-clicking a recipient email address in any line and use the 'Move to' menu items. Should be pretty easy to use.

The only major difference compared to TB68 is that now with TB78 there can be multiple recipient addresses per line. Wrt to/cc/bcc, you can easily change between them by right-clicking a recipient email address in any line and use the 'Move to' menu items. Should be pretty easy to use.

I understand all that. That's not the question. I don't like the new way. I want to get the old way back. Is there a way to do that?

I want to get the old way back. Is there a way to do that?

I don't think so.

I want to get the old way back. Is there a way to do that?

I don't think so.

Thanks.

christ1 said

The only major difference compared to TB68 is that now with TB78 there can be multiple recipient addresses per line.

This is not the only difference. Also one has to "get" the additional fields from the menu to make them available, "Reply-To" being hidden in a submenu (yet an other click). I use TB professionally, and there is hardly an email w/o Cc and many mails per day with require a special "Reply-To". The new UI makes composing such mails much, much time consuming and mouse-intensive

This is not the only difference. Also one has to "get" the additional fields from the menu to make them available, "Reply-To" being hidden in a submenu (yet an other click). I use TB professionally, and there is hardly an email w/o Cc and many mails per day with require a special "Reply-To". The new UI makes composing such mails much, much time consuming and mouse-intensive

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Adding clicks doesn't make something better. Even if the old way isn't brought back there should be some way to make adding CCs, etc. easier.

re : Also one has to "get" the additional fields from the menu to make them available,

I think you will find that actually it is just different and new and a lot less clicking than you may at first realise.

Instead of right click on TO to see drop down and left click to select the Cc field, - two clicks You have the option : Click on a Cc option - one click, then enter email address OR entering the email address in a TO field right click on email address and you have the same old option as before (when it used to be at the far left to change a TO to a Cc) - select 'Move to Cc' and the 'Cc' field is auto created and the email address is auto moved into it. Still only two clicks just like before. No change in clicks.

When requiring the 'Reply-to' which is in the >> drop down Click on >> and click on 'Reply-to' This is only two clicks, exactly the same as before when you would click for a drop down and click on 'Reply-to'.

The only big difference is because there is only one TO, one Cc etc, it means you do not need to repeated do this double clicking for every email address that uses a Cc or Bcc field.

If using the 'Contacts sidebar' select various names and click on 'Add to cc' and the Cc field is auto created and contacts auto entered. Same as before - no change.

If your Account settings for the mail account already have a 'Reply-to' set up then this is automatically entered in an automatically generated 'Reply-to' field. Same as before no change.

Same goes for any Cc or Bcc set up in the Account Settings, Copies & Folders - so no change.

Unlike previously, in the new version you do not enter any commas between each email address, they are no longer required, it all happens in the background. So for users who did this before, it is now less typing and less chance of an error.

Futher info here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/addressing-email

Another difference is that I was able to use the keyboard to use the old functionality more quickly than the keyboard works on this one.

OLD way: Steps to open Write and the first change is to set the 'Reply-to' Click on Write Shift+tab, then use down arrow key three times to scroll though options

New Way: Click on Write Shift+tab, Enter, Enter or Shift+tab, Down arrow, Enter

So it is different meaning you need to learn a new process, but not much and uses one less action.

With the old way I could do it in an easy flow using keyboard only. It's not as easy to do it that way here. I don't even think you can change a recipient from a "from" to a "cc" using he keyboard only anymore.

If you have just entered a contact recipient in a TO field and you realise you want to move it to a Cc field. Use Arrow key to highlight item Use the right click keyboard key (usually located adjacent to the right Ctrl key) or Shift + F10 key to get drop down and then use either arrow down or Shift C twice to select and Enter.

But if you have been using keyboard to select and move around all this time then I'm afraid I'm probably telling you something you probably already know, so I'm sorry if I'm teaching grandma to suck eggs, so as to speak.