Keeping threaded view in Thunderbird

Chris Ilias 23 Comments

Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded view.

What if you want to keep threaded view on? Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“.
In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads. Double-click on it, which should change the value to false.
That’s it. 🙂

23 Responses

  1. Jason April 5, 2007 / 7:47 pm

    This is a great tip — I accidentally do this often!

    However, it doesn’t appear to work in the TB 2.x bleeding edge build that I use. Have something changed that would break this?
    Jason

  2. localhost April 6, 2007 / 6:17 am

    Why is it needed to remove this feature by default? I love this one.

  3. Bram April 6, 2007 / 7:11 am

    Indeed, as localhost says, why not have this feature on by default? At this point, the default behaviour is confusing…

  4. michael schurter April 11, 2007 / 1:35 pm

    There’s a fix for this?! Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

    I had just given up on being able to easily sort my mail!

    Please please please please turn this off by default!

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  7. Matt Dell May 10, 2007 / 11:17 pm

    Hi I am using the release candidate 2.0 (2.0.20070326)
    Doesn’t seem to work for me either
    Any thoughts?
    Came here via Lifehacker btw
    🙂

  8. namit May 11, 2007 / 3:16 am

    Yes i am using 2.0 with Imap also and it does not work for me.

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  10. Rory McCann May 11, 2007 / 11:00 am

    Cool, thanks a million, that had annoyed me so much. 🙂

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  16. Tina May 31, 2007 / 11:17 am

    In the Mac version, there is no Tools -> Options menu, and Thunderbird -> Preferences -> General -> Advanced doesn’t offer a Config editor. Any advice?

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  19. Keith December 3, 2007 / 12:57 pm

    So, there is an easy solution for TBird 2. Simply click the leftmost column header, which is (as if by magic) “click to display message threads”.

    Viola! your threads are restored.

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  21. Paul March 2, 2008 / 12:08 am

    Since you’re so smart (honestly, this is amazing!), do you know how to show more than 7 levels of threading?

  22. Chris December 6, 2008 / 11:37 am

    Thanks for the tip regarding Thunderbird 2.0

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