Message Header Toolbar Customize

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by kank on Feb. 15, 2023 · permalink

Many people will like this add-on, but especially newsgroup users who will find that TB insists upon offering a "Reply" button as the first option when reading newsgroup articles. This leads to users accidentally replying via e-mail when they intended to respond (followup) via NNTP. This has been a problem since Thunderbird 15, *but* users could at least customize that menu to resolve it on their own.

The customization was later also removed, leaving a terrible UI design as the only option. Practically NO ONE using a newsgroup intends to reply to a poster via e-mail and doing so is borderline harassment to newsgroup users ;). This add-on fixes that and it works quite nicely. Too bad the TV devs wasted their time in bugzilla debating the definition of "Reply" and "Followup" rather than simply placing the buttons in the expected positions.

Thanks to H.Ogi for creating and maintaining this add-on as it has undoubtedly kept a lot of users from pulling their hair out.