Thunderbird 115 introduced a new look. I hate it. Not only does it no longer fit in with KDE Plasma, it lost functionality due to it’s new integrated search bar in the title bar.
So I went on a mission to fix it.
To restore the regular title bar:
Go into Settings
> General
> Language & Appereance
and uncheck the Hide system window titlebar
To remove search bar:
Toggle toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
to true
in Config Editor (bottom of Settings)
Find your profile directory via Help
> Troubleshooting Information
> Profile Directory
(or about:profiles
in same page)
This directory should have lots of files e.g. prefs.js
and places.sqlite
Create directory chrome
Inside that folder, create a file named userChrome.css
with the below content:
#unifiedToolbar {
display:none !important;
}
Restart Thunderbird
Enjoy!
It’s sad that you hate it. It’s good that you found a way to fight against change.
I will however admit that I didn’t consider Thunderbird ac an alternative for my email management prior to v.115. Now I find it finally not ressembling a Windows 98 email client and really like it.