Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird
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Abbie Johnson Taylor, Author https://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com abbietaylor945@...
If you’re using thunderbird, I think it’s f-8 to get to the preview pane.
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Sent: Saturday, February 5, 2022 12:50 PM
To: NVDA List
Subject: [nvda] Enabling Preview Pane in Thunderbird
I recently installed the Mozilla Enhancements add-on for NVDA and
understand that I can read a message in the preview pane with this
add-on without leaving the message list by pressing NVDA plus Down Arrow
on my desktop PC. Since I like knowing at least a little of what's in a
message before I open it, this sounds appealing. However, I can't seem
to figure out how to enable the preview pane. Any ideas?
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Abbie Johnson Taylor, Author https://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com
abbietaylor945@...
F8 toggles the preview pane on/off when you are in any window where that would be appropriate. In this case, I'm sure you're wanting to do this in the main Thunderbird window when you're either sitting in your inbox or the message list itself for the inbox (or, possibly, any other mail folder). The preview pane applies to all folders or none, hence the reason it's very quick and easy to toggle on or off.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
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In this version of thunderbird, under view menu, layout sub-menu, there's a message pane item, and, here the keystroke to toggle it is F8, but, I myself have always left it turned off since it would then otherwise mark a message as read after had just been focused on it for a couple of seconds, whether had actually taken note of it, or not.
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I recently installed the Mozilla Enhancements add-on for NVDA and understand that I can read a message in the preview pane with this add-on without leaving the message list by pressing NVDA plus Down Arrow on my desktop PC. Since I like knowing at least a little of what's in a message before I open it, this sounds appealing. However, I can't seem to figure out how to enable the preview pane. Any ideas?
There's no preview pane in Thunderbird, however, if you press f8 this will turn on the message pane and you'll be able to read your messages that way. Hope this helps.
tony
I recently installed the Mozilla Enhancements add-on for NVDA and understand that I can read a message in the preview pane with this add-on without leaving the message list by pressing NVDA plus Down Arrow on my desktop PC. Since I like knowing at least a little of what's in a message before I open it, this sounds appealing. However, I can't seem to figure out how to enable the preview pane. Any ideas?
Gene
I recently installed the Mozilla Enhancements add-on for NVDA and understand that I can read a message in the preview pane with this add-on without leaving the message list by pressing NVDA plus Down Arrow on my desktop PC. Since I like knowing at least a little of what's in a message before I open it, this sounds appealing. However, I can't seem to figure out how to enable the preview pane. Any ideas?
Gene
Hi Abbie,
There's no preview pane in Thunderbird, however, if you press f8 this will turn on the message pane and you'll be able to read your messages that way. Hope this helps.
tony
On 2/5/2022 3:50 PM, Abbie Taylor wrote:I recently installed the Mozilla Enhancements add-on for NVDA and understand that I can read a message in the preview pane with this add-on without leaving the message list by pressing NVDA plus Down Arrow on my desktop PC. Since I like knowing at least a little of what's in a message before I open it, this sounds appealing. However, I can't seem to figure out how to enable the preview pane. Any ideas?
Its just a different name for the same thing.-
Exactly. Preview pane and reading pane get used interchangeably when talking about email clients in general. Though each may have chosen one term over the other, this is one of those, "those making the references are not at all unclear about the exact what that's being referred to."
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
I neither need nor want to be appeased, but apprised. Inconvenient truth is preferable to convenient (for the liar) lies.
~ Brian Vogel
I myself have always left it turned off since it would then otherwise mark a message as read after had just been focused on it for a couple of seconds,-
Just for the record, that is configurable. Mind you, if you land on an unread message and walk away, even the maximum number of minutes will not save you from eventually having it marked as read. But most don't do this in that they either read first and walk away or quickly shift focus on to a previously read message so that they will still have the one they don't have time to read now remain marked as unread.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
I neither need nor want to be appeased, but apprised. Inconvenient truth is preferable to convenient (for the liar) lies.
~ Brian Vogel
You can see if it saves you time. It wouldn't save me time because the feature itself has a slight delay between when you issue the read command and when the e-mail is read. You can see what the case is on your machine and for the way you read mail.
Gene
Thank you, Gene. I'm not asking for security reasons. I receive a lot of email from the Facebook groups to which I belong, and I want to know if those messages are worth opening. Some of them are, and some of them aren't. Other email programs I've used have the option to read a few lines of a message when displaying it in the message list. Since Thunderbird doesn't seem to have that option, this is the next best thing. It just saves me a little time, not having to open a message, only to find out it's something I don't want. Thanks again.
Other email programs I've used have the option to read a few lines of a message when displaying it in the message list.-
Abbie, there's actually a Thunderbird Add-On, Message Preview, for that you may wish to play with. You probably would not want the hover feature enabled but the display in a column option.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/messagepreview/
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044
I neither need nor want to be appeased, but apprised. Inconvenient truth is preferable to convenient (for the liar) lies.
~ Brian Vogel