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ESCAPE KEY while looking at a mail item has always exited item and taken me back to the inbox. Thunderbird just updated and this no longer works. CTRL + W does

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IOK Wasamatau
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ESCAPE KEY while looking at a mail item has always exited item and taken me back to the inbox. Thunderbird just updated and this no longer works. CTRL + W does the same thing, but THAT IS A PAIN! 


 Application Basics

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 68.3.1
   Build ID: 20191215232630

   Update Channel: release
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1
   OS: Windows_NT 10.0

   Launcher Process: Enabled
   Multiprocess Windows: 0/0
             Disabled
   Remote Processes: 0
   Enterprise Policies: Inactive
   Google Location Service Key: Missing
   Google Safebrowsing Key: Missing
   Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
   Safe Mode: false

 Mail and News Accounts
   account2:
     INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

   account10:
     INCOMING: account10, , (pop3) pop.mail.yahoo.com:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true

   account11:
     INCOMING: account11, , (pop3) mail.comcast.net:995, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true

 Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days

 Remote Processes

   Type: Count

 Extensions

     Name
     Version
     Enabled
     ID

       Amazon.com
       1.1
       true
       [email protected]

       Bing
       1.0
       true
       [email protected]

       DuckDuckGo
       1.0
       true
       [email protected]

       Google
       1.0
       true
       [email protected]

       Lightning
       68.3.1.1
       true
       {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}

       Twitter
       1.0
       true
       [email protected]

       Wikipedia (en)
       1.0
       true
       [email protected]

       Close tab on ESC
       0.0.8
       false
       CloseTabOnEsc@david-winter.at

 Security Software

   Type: Name

     Antivirus: Norton Security Suite
     Antispyware:
     Firewall: Norton Security Suite

 Graphics

     Features
     Compositing: Basic
     Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none
     WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info: EGL_VENDOR: Google Inc. (adapter LUID: 000000000000c065)
ESCAPE KEY while looking at a mail item has always exited item and taken me back to the inbox. Thunderbird just updated and this no longer works. CTRL + W does the same thing, but THAT IS A PAIN! Application Basics Name: Thunderbird Version: 68.3.1 Build ID: 20191215232630 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 OS: Windows_NT 10.0 Launcher Process: Enabled Multiprocess Windows: 0/0 Disabled Remote Processes: 0 Enterprise Policies: Inactive Google Location Service Key: Missing Google Safebrowsing Key: Missing Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing Safe Mode: false Mail and News Accounts account2: INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext account10: INCOMING: account10, , (pop3) pop.mail.yahoo.com:995, SSL, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: , smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true account11: INCOMING: account11, , (pop3) mail.comcast.net:995, SSL, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: , smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days Remote Processes Type: Count Extensions Name Version Enabled ID Amazon.com 1.1 true [email protected] Bing 1.0 true [email protected] DuckDuckGo 1.0 true [email protected] Google 1.0 true [email protected] Lightning 68.3.1.1 true {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} Twitter 1.0 true [email protected] Wikipedia (en) 1.0 true [email protected] Close tab on ESC 0.0.8 false [email protected] Security Software Type: Name Antivirus: Norton Security Suite Antispyware: Firewall: Norton Security Suite Graphics Features Compositing: Basic Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info: EGL_VENDOR: Google Inc. (adapter LUID: 000000000000c065)

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Updated for TB 68:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/close-on-escape-too/

IOK Wasamatau
IOK Wasamatau Question owner
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Took me a while to figure out how to get it installed, but I finally managed. Thanks! So I must have had this on in the old version? It was an addon?

sfhowes
sfhowes
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Yes, close on ESC was provided by an add-on that worked on TB 60, and the new one is based on the previous add-on.