Thunderbird, Advance to next ...
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu May 11 00:16:38 UTC 2006
Don Russell wrote:
> On 5/10/2006 2:52 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> taharka wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:02 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am presently using Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060501) and
>>>> FC-5. Until updating to FC-5 and the latest Thunderbird I could
>>>> prevent Thunderbird from asking "Advance to next unread message in
>>>> ----------?" by making the following configuration changes which can
>>>> no longer be done. It appears that the configuration files have
>>>> changed and I'm unable to find where to stop this annoying "feature!"
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>>>>
>>>> Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia w2bod
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > how to stop Thunderbird from asking
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "Advance to next unread message in ................."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In ~/.thunderbird/default/<some_characters>/user.js add
>>>>
>>>> # How to handle the Advance to next unread message in <x> folder
>>>> # prompt.
>>>> #
>>>> # Settings:
>>>> # 0 - Always go to the next folder without prompting
>>>> # 1 - Ask before going (default behavior)
>>>> # 2 - Don't prompt and don't go to the next folder with unread
>>>> # messages
>>>> user_pref("mailnews.nav_crosses_folders", 0);
>>>>
>>>> (or chose 2 if you do not want to automatically go to next folder with
>>>> unread messages)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does the following link help you?
>>>
>>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_nextunread
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, definitely! I searched for that file and never found it.
>
>
> Use the built-in config editor:
>
> tools/options/advanced
> click the Config Editor... button
Ahh...that's "Windows Speak".
You want "Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General-Tab
>
> In the filter field, enter mailnews.nav
>
> Double click the one item
> enter your new value....
>
> Sure beats trying to find the magic file. :-)
>
> Though you still need to know the magic values. ;-)
>
> It would be very cool, if, when an item is selected in the config
> editor, pressing F1 would show the comments explaining the different
> values. RFE? ;-)
>
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