Thunderbird 3.0 - How do I recover some lost function?

Question

I've just switched to Thunderbird 3.0. It's good, but please help me to fix some slight annoyances:

1. How do I turn off the message preview pane as default? I can turn it off from the View menu, or (sometimes) with F8, but I simply don't want it.
2. What happened to CTRL-Q as a shortcut for File->Exit? I still use multiple windows, so ALT-F4 doesn't do what I want and I have to go fiddling with the mouse.

Answer 1

Well, instead of Ctrl-Q, use Ctrl-W which appears to be a fairly widespread key combination for "close window." Not sure the origin, but I suspect it's related to cross-platform applications. The same combination works for closing tabs in Firefox, Notepad++ and IE8.

As far as the preview window/message pane, for me it retains the setting it had when I closed Thunderbird previously - if open, it's open, if closed it's closed. I've noted that F8 doesn't always work for me though - sometimes I have to select it from the View menu.

Answer 2

I have used Autohotkey to provide this function:

GroupAdd TBird, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass, , , ^$|Mozilla Firefox$ 
...
#If WinActive("ahk_group TBird") 
    ^q::WinClose, ahk_group TBird