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After update 115 Thunderbird made the Menu Bar the Bottom bar, how do I revert it?

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Update 115, Bottomed my Menu Bar, how do I revert it? I.e image showing Firefox with Menu Bar, Topped. 2nd image showing Thunderbird with Menu Bar, Bottomed.


Thanks for all your work and sharing!

Update 115, Bottomed my Menu Bar, how do I revert it? I.e image showing Firefox with Menu Bar, Topped. 2nd image showing Thunderbird with Menu Bar, Bottomed. Thanks for all your work and sharing!
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- click settings>general and scrollodown to config editor - search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and change to true - then you need a folder named 'chrome' in profile, and a userChrome.css file in the folder (with content shown below). - exit and restart TB and it should work, although I've sometimes found I have to restart TB twice to see changes in userChrome.css - Below is content for userChrome.css

/*  #######    */
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

#toolbar-menubar {
  order: 1;             
}

unified-toolbar {
  order: 2;             
}

#tabs-toolbar {
  order: 3;              
}

Note: There were technical reasons for this, resulting in cleaner, simpler, code, so it was no accident. This fix does the job, though.

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Saafara yiñ Tànn

- click settings>general and scrollodown to config editor - search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and change to true - then you need a folder named 'chrome' in profile, and a userChrome.css file in the folder (with content shown below). - exit and restart TB and it should work, although I've sometimes found I have to restart TB twice to see changes in userChrome.css - Below is content for userChrome.css

/*  #######    */
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

#toolbar-menubar {
  order: 1;             
}

unified-toolbar {
  order: 2;             
}

#tabs-toolbar {
  order: 3;              
}

Note: There were technical reasons for this, resulting in cleaner, simpler, code, so it was no accident. This fix does the job, though.

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Thanks for your reply and help, David !

So I checked AppData, both Local and Roaming but neither Thunderbird Profile as a Chrome folder. Oddly, both do have Profiles but if I need to make a new 'Chrome' folder, not sure which one.

Hope you or someone can offer a bit more direction, Thanks!  :D

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the profile is in appdata\roaming. easiest way to get there is to click help>troubleshootinginformation, scroll down to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder'. That drops you right in the profile. You need to create the chrome folder - chrome, not Chrome. And in that folder, create text file of userChrome.css

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Thanks again for all your help, it did work! :D

An addendum, at least for me it needed to go in the individual profiles, which are in the Profile folder. I.e. \default-release*

Edit: I'm still shocked by your mention, these changes seem intentional.

Acleacius moo ko soppali ci

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You're welcome. Yes, the change was intentional and there is a page somewhere with all the explanations about it. Fortunately, this corrects it for our use.

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david said

- click settings>general and scrollodown to config editor - search for toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets and change to true - then you need a folder named 'chrome' in profile, and a userChrome.css file in the folder (with content shown below). - exit and restart TB and it should work, although I've sometimes found I have to restart TB twice to see changes in userChrome.css - Below is content for userChrome.css
/*  #######    */
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");

#toolbar-menubar {
  order: 1;             
}

unified-toolbar {
  order: 2;             
}

#tabs-toolbar {
  order: 3;              
}

Note: There were technical reasons for this, resulting in cleaner, simpler, code, so it was no accident. This fix does the job, though.

Thank you! I'm a heavy user of Firefox and Thunderbird for more than 15 years. It's a shame that Mozilla products - once the cream of customization, now fall behind competitors. Hopefully they will restore to previous heights one day...