1779959 - Possibility to hide/disable "Recent" and "Favorites" folders from Context Menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[thefriendlyguy]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Right-click on a message
2. Select Move To/Copy To

Actual results:

The first two folders are "Recent" and "Favorites".
Sometimes selecting "Recent" folder causes a small "hiccup"/slowdown (probably due to collecting/listing the most recently used folders).

Expected results:

If both "Recent" and "Favorites" folder were hidden I would see my account-name folder as the first one.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I wouldn't add it as a feature, but you can do it already with a userChrome.css file.
Something like

#mailContext-fileHereMenu menu.folderMenuItem[special="favorites"] { display: none; }
#mailContext-fileHereMenu menu.folderMenuItem[special="recent"] { display: none; }

Comment 2

[thefriendlyguy]

It does work for Move To, but when I select Copy To, the "Recent" and "Favorites" folders are still shown. Any idea how to hide them too?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

For copy, use #mailContext-copyHereMenu instead of #mailContext-fileHereMenu in the above rules

Comment 4

[thefriendlyguy]

Excellent, it works flawlessly. Thank you! The only thing that is left there is a horizontal line that divides "Recent" and "Favorites" from the e-mail accounts. Is it somehow possible to hide that line too?

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Probably #mailContext-fileHereMenu menuseparator {display: none;}

Comment 6

[thefriendlyguy]

It's working! Thank you so much! :-)

Comment 7

[thefriendlyguy]

I've just discovered that the "Recent" and "Favorites" folders are still visible if I open a message, and instead of right-clicking on it, I select "Message" tab in the top-left menu bar and go to Move To/Copy To. Any idea how to hide the folders there? I'm sorry for disturbing you and asking you so many question in regard of this just one issue.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think you can use #moveMenu and #copyMenu instead of #mailContext-fileHereMenu and #mailContext-copyHereMenu (you can find id's using the developer tool to inspect the dom)
https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/70f9a971db10339da36acca1413ce7a9786ac5f0/mail/base/content/messenger-menubar.inc.xhtml#967