QuoteCollapse :: Reviews :: Add-ons for Thunderbird

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Rei.N on July 1, 2022 · permalink

Please update for TB102.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Alexander Ihrig on March 20, 2021 · permalink

The collapse feature will be incorporated in my "Quote Colors" extension from up Version 3.0a6:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/quotecolors/

Development is reported here:
https://www.thunderbird-mail.de/forum/thread/86842-quotecolors-update-f%C3%BCr-thunderbird-91/

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Millwood on Nov. 22, 2020 · permalink

This is invaluable if you follow newsgoups on Thunderbird were the quote levels and bottom quoting conspire to create long trips to the new content. This should be built in to Thunderbird, of course.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by krzymn on Sept. 11, 2020 · permalink

Please update for TB78 :)

by Michael J Gruber (Developer) on Sept. 11, 2020 · permalink

Thanks for the positive feedback.

QC 2.0 used an intermediate API to make it work with TB6x. TB78 dropped that API ("legacy webextension") while the new API ("mailextension") lacks important features (such as content scripts for mail display panes) which will not land before TB82. So for TB78-TB82, we have to use yet another new intermediate API ("experimental API") knowing it might be gone soon, too. I cannot promise for that new rewrite to appear soon, unfortunately.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by leaetleselfes on Nov. 27, 2019 · permalink

Fonctionne avec la dernière version 68.2.2

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by itamarh on Oct. 29, 2017 · permalink

Hi Michael,

I found no easy way to reply to your reply on my previous review. thanks for your fast reply on it.
I'm not sure if there are any plans in thunderbird itself to improve handling of html quotes, and indeed if i hit reply on an html email with html quotes it ignores them.
However, if i choose view as plain-text, thunderbird seems to know to convert the quotes correctly (and then quotecollapse does recognize them).
So I guess the question is if there is any way to correlate the two, not forcing to change to view as plaintext, but still use that capability to detect the quotes.

Thanks,
Itamar

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9). This user has a previous review of this add-on.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Dillinger on June 14, 2015 · permalink

Toggle Quotes adds a toolbar button and a shortcut key to QuoteCollapse.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/toggle-quotes/

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9).

by Michael J Gruber (Developer) on June 15, 2015 · permalink

This does not appear to be a review of QuoteCollapse.
I don't mind linking to that add-on-add-on from the description or even integrating functionality.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Swedish Chef on Dec. 2, 2013 · permalink

This project appears to have been dead for some time now. The mailing list no longer exists, and the archives stopped abruptly in Jan 2012 (http://www.mozdev.org/pipermail/quotecollapse).

It works great, as far as it goes, and it can even be extended to include a very-helpful keybinding to toggle behavior by hacking via keyconfig as suggested here: http://quotecollapse.mozdev.org/customising.html. But the Style hacks are no longer applicable with current versions of Thunderbird, and since the community is dead I suppose we can't expect any updates such as properly integrated keybindings or customizations. What it is is what you get (unless somebody picks up the source and carries this on to completion).

It's annoying that it collapses all quotes completely - it should be tunable for context. But it's better than nothing particularly in long discussions with people who use inline comments or bottom posting without trimming any content.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9).

by Michael J Gruber (Developer) on March 31, 2018 · permalink

Please try version 1.0 and check out the Customization section of the website.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by John on Aug. 8, 2013 · permalink

I would like to like this extension, it's very close to what I need but it fails on a couple of critical issues that I suspect would be easy to fix.

1) When a quote is collapsed there is not enough context to understand what the replier is referring to. There is only one line of context. Often the 1 line of context is either empty, or has something meaningless in it such as "Bob said:" or "I disagree". Then I'm left wondering Bob said what? Or what did they disagree with? This forces me to manually expand the collapsed quote which is problematic for a few reasons. I have to use the mouse to click on a tiny + button which is awkward, it may expand into a large quantity of text which scrolls off the screen and which I don't need to fully re-read in order to recall the conversation, I just need a few more lines of context. In fact I find I have to expand the last quote so often the value of collapsing prior quotes is dubious. Plus the keyboard shortcuts aren't the most friendly so I end up using the mouse.

2) There is no user preferences. I'd really like to be able configure such things as the number of context lines, what level of quoting expand/collapse when a message is initially displayed, define my own keyboard shortcuts, etc.

It's so close to being really useful, but each time I try it I end up disabling it because it often requires more interaction from me while reading email than when it's disabled.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9).

by Michael J Gruber (Developer) on March 31, 2018 · permalink

Please try version 1.0 and check out the Customization section of the website.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by will on Jan. 26, 2012 · permalink

I like this add-on. It did the hard work of adding a very useful feature to Thunderbird to hide quotes. There is still a little more work to be done in terms of preferences and keyboard shortcuts as some of the other reviewers have suggested.

Here is some code that can be used with the keyconfig addon to add a keyboard shortcut to toggle expanding and collapsing all quotations in a message.

tree = QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument.getElementsByTagName("blockquote");

if (tree.item(0).getAttribute("qctoggled") == "true") {
QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 0);
}
else {
QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 1);
}

If you want separate commands for expanding and collapsing, just use

QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 1);

to expand all and

QuoteCollapse._setTree(QuoteCollapse._messagePane.contentDocument, 0);

to collapse all.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9).

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Hugo on March 8, 2011 · permalink

Holding down CTRL or CTRL+SHIFT does nothing.
Instead of "holding down CTRL SHIFT" to collapse/expand all, maybe a hotkey like "E" and "C" would be better.

This addon would rule if it weren't for that. Since I don't have a mouse most of this time, the fact that the hotkey doesn't work makes it unusable, and I need to actually disable it (since there is no workaround either).

Also, double clicking on any part of the line of the quoted text to expand it might work too. (Even with a mouse, I have a very hard time aiming at the tiny "+" icon)