535800 - collapsing the message header pane is not possible

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Henry Osorio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
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how can i collapse the message header pane? in previous version there was a plus/minus sign to expand/collapse this pane

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.After a fresh install/upgrade
2.Open message pane and preview an message
3.Press the plus sign on message header to expand it, after that, it is nor possible to collapse it 
Actual Results:  
1.After a fresh install/upgrade
2.Open message pane and preview an message
3.Press the plus sign on message header to expand it, after that, it is nor possible to collapse it 


shows a minus sign, like in previous versions, to collapse the message summary pane

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is by design, please read the releases notes and more background information at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dmose/archives/2009/07/thunderbird_30b3_shipped.html.

If you want that functionality back install the appropriate add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search?q=header&cat=all&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=18&lver=any&atype=0&pp=20&pid=3&sort=&lup=

Comment 2

[DeMus]

By design???
With all due respect but how can you do that? You are wasting around 10% of the available space on the monitor without building in any way to get that back?
The addon you are referring to makes it a little better, but still 5% space is wasted. Please make it like it was so we can get rid of that ugly grey bar.
When I started e-mailing I used Outlook Expresse on Windows 98. One of the first things I configured was getting rid of that bar. I have done so in every e-mail program on every OS I have used. Now suddenly it is impossible. This is a giant step backwards.
If you don't want to loose users you really have to get it back a.s.a.p.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #2)

> If you don't want to loose users you really have to get it back a.s.a.p.

If you read the blog post it's available via an extension. Install said extension and the feature is back.