Add-ons
Reviews for Extra Folder Columns by Scott Reed
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Each folder has the account name tagged onto it so there's not enough room to display the folder name and it gets truncated. This makes it unusable. There is a fix available (google "different extra folder columns") which is just a minor tweak to the code for this add-on but the authors of this add-on refuse to include that fix because they are waiting (at least five years now!) for Thunderbird to fix a bug. I use and recommend only the "different" version. If this add-on had this fix I'd give it 5 stars. Too bad.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Still no option for turning off account names in listing, making this useless unless you have a really short account name. This has been requested since this add-on first came out (just look through the history of negative reviews) and patches have been offered to make this simple fix. Developers don't care - don't use this.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.1.3).Sorry, but it hasn't been requested since the add-on first came out. The fact it actually turned off account names was a mistake in the code that caused conflicts with other extensions, and when that was fixed it showed account names as per the Thunderbird default.
Thunderbird's favourite view has been fixed in Thunderbird 7 not to display account names unless necessary. There's a bug open on fixing Thunderbird's other views, I think it best to wait for that rather than just adding in some temporary exclusion.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Adding the account name to every line uses up valuable screen space that could be used for more columns. Makes this pretty much useless unless you're willing either to make your folder list awkwardly wide or to rename your accounts to something short and meaningless.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.1.3).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Each line in the folder view has the account name on every line with no option to remove it (though it's a simple coding change as was demonstrated by a user of the 1.0 version). This flaw has been mentioned by many users for previous versions yet still remains in the latest version. Since the developers of this add-on appear not to care about user feedback, I suggest trying the QuickFolders add-on instead.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.1.1).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
This version adds the account name on every folder! What a waste of eye-space. Since this is a folder column utility, why not make this an optional column???? I know I would never add that column but you'd make whoever does want it happy without making the rest of us look for options like this one: http://chrishecker.com/Miscellaneous_Technical_Stuff#Thunderbird.
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