The latest update to Thunderbird email client shows the attachments under a separate panel. I'd like the panel to display expanded automatically.
How do I do that? It doesn't seem to be in the help files or the release notes.
As per this writeup on the Attachment Pane Redesign on MozillaZine, you can add the following to userChrome.css to remove the attachment toggles:
#attachmentView > [collapsed="true"] {
visibility: visible !important;
}
#attachmentToggle {
display: none !important;
}
Edit: Corrected filename to userChrome.css
Right-click on the attachment pane, and click "Initially Show Attachment Pane."
(The option was added in Thunderbird v24 and up.)
userChrome.css
was ignored by TB
Apr 5, 2017 at 20:31
This ability to change this through the UI has been removed in newer versions, but it still exists in about:config (Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor...)
Set mailnews.attachments.display.start_expanded
to true
In the version I have, 45.6.0, there is an option under the View tab to Display Attachments Inline that worked for me.
Since this question has been asked over 11 years ago, I'm sharing a solution for recent versions of Thunderbird. In my case, I'm referring to Thunderbird 102.11.0.
From the main menu, go to Tools
> Settings
. Alternatively, click on the gear icon in the bottom-left corner.
Go to the General
tab (you should be there already) and scroll down until reaching the Config Editor
button.
mail.inline_attachments
and mail.inline_attachments.text
to true.You can also go to Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor... and set mail.inline_attachments -> true
If you'd like to show attachments pane when composing new email, then set mail.compose.show_attachment_pane -> true