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In recent versions of Thunderbird, they changed behavior of Quick Filters search toolbar. I use it very heavily on thousands of mails. Now pressing Escape, will close it, and there is no quick way to re-enable it especially over RDP session with limited keyboard.

Question is how to make keyboard shortcut, example letter Q to quickly open and focus Quick Filters?

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Update for Thunderbird 78 - the previously mentioned KeyConfig is not longer maintained - it stopped working well before TB 68.

Newer addon, tbkeys (specifically tbkeys-lite) which does much of the same thing, perhaps more. I use it now, having previously used KeyConfig.

Specific settings to accomplish the OP's request (and a few more):

    "/":            "cmd:cmd_showQuickFilterBar",
    "meta+f":       "cmd:cmd_showQuickFilterBar",
    "meta+ctrl+f":  "cmd:cmd_toggleQuickFilterBar",
    "meta+shift+f": "cmd:cmd_find",
    "ctrl+s":       "cmd:cmd_find",
    "meta+shift+s": "cmd:cmd_search",

GitRepo: TBKeys

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  • cmd:cmd_toggleQuickFilterBar doesn't seem to close the bar, though. Which can be done with ESC.
    – Sebastian
    May 20, 2021 at 17:28
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The two steps are necessary.

  1. Download and install Thunderbird extension Keyconfig
  2. Go to Addons, closk on Options near keyconfig addon and Add new key, name it Quick Filters, in command window put goDoCommand('cmd_showQuickFilterBar') and assign keyboard shortcut, for example Q.

That's it. Alternatively you can put command: cmd_popQuickFilterBarStack - to open Quick filter and clear any contents if there was, or even cmd_toggleQuickFilterBar which is self explanatory.

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