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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.

6 Answers 6

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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

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  • Thanks. I ended up using the "Attachment Options" extension referenced in the article.
    – Brad Bruce
    Jul 21, 2011 at 10:59
  • Sanjay- nice call, I used the code in your answer however you should note, the file and directory probably need to be created and the file name is not userContent.css (that has a different purpose) it is userChrome.css.
    – user131792
    May 2, 2012 at 14:25
  • Ahh .. good catch on the filename. I'm updating my answer. May 4, 2012 at 18:11
  • PLEASE somebody update this for Thunderbird 10.0. I just spent 4 hours trying to figure this out, and google has failed me.
    – PyTis
    Aug 22, 2022 at 19:58
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Right-click on the attachment pane, and click "Initially Show Attachment Pane."

(The option was added in Thunderbird v24 and up.)

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  • And it seems as if it this option was removed again. At least I can't find it in Thunderbird 38.7.0.
    – Andreas
    Apr 3, 2016 at 17:42
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    It's here in 45.8.0 and saved me when userChrome.css was ignored by TB Apr 5, 2017 at 20:31
  • This worked for me in Betterbird v102
    – pato
    Jan 8 at 18:47
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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

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In the version I have, 45.6.0, there is an option under the View tab to Display Attachments Inline that worked for me.

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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.

  1. From the main menu, go to Tools > Settings. Alternatively, click on the gear icon in the bottom-left corner.

  2. Go to the General tab (you should be there already) and scroll down until reaching the Config Editor button.

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  1. At this point, filter for the attachment attributes and set the properties mail.inline_attachments and mail.inline_attachments.text to true.

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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

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