The css selector tweak is designed to help you find selectors that apply in thunderbird s user interface. Having followed a tutorial on ehow, i have managed to add the style i need in a new usercontent. It does not actually change any web page or email message. Apr 15, 2018 you can change the font, font size, and other attributes of fonts used in the folder pane, messagelist pane, menus, and elsewhere in the user interface ui. Sorry to come long later, this was quite selfexplanatory once copied to userchrome. Firefox 57, also known as firefox quantum, has a fresh look. By the way, the default is for thunderbird to use your system fonts. Users appdataroamingthunderbirdprofiles chromeuserchrome. If you have more than one profile, then each of your profiles has a separate userchrome. Changing the default font size of thunderbird university. New if youve used some of this code, please give your userchrome. Other than some basic styles that thunderbird provides, it is not a tool for creating full blown html emails. If you are a mozilla firefox web browser user, you might be aware of following 2 files.
My thunderbird userchrome modifications silvercirclegithubio. Some code may not work and some may be unnecessary. If theres a search you use a lot lets say s people search, this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Web resources about changing font size in folder and message list panes mozilla.
Is there a way to change the font size for thunderbird. Incidentally, as this folder mozillafirebird\defaults\profile\us is the template folder for new profiles, anything in it gets copied to every new profile. After some searching, i discovered that thunderbird s ui font for the folder and message list panes could be set with this rule in userchrome. For information about the css files that you can use to customize thunderbird, see. Feb 02, 2011 web resources about changing font size in folder and message list panes mozilla. Enter the text you wish to find in the textbox, and as you type thunderbird will automatically find and select the first occurrence of the entered text on the page. Zip you downloaded from github into that freshly created directory. This file sets the display rules for various elements in the thunderbird user interface and is located in the subfolder called chrome in your profile folder.
In addition to the builtin customize feature see customize firefox controls, buttons and toolbars at mozilla support, you can modify the appearance of firefox using the powerful userchrome. If you just want to moveremoverename menus and menu items or changedisable shortcuts use the menu wizard addon instead. After some searching, i discovered that thunderbirds ui font for the folder and message list panes could be set with this rule in userchrome. Ive run it under strace to see exactly which files its opening and theres no reference to userchrome. You can find users on the web offering a wide range of readytopaste style recipes, and communities where you can. If you have more than one profile, then each of your profiles has a separate usercontent. This article describes the overall layout of thunderbirds main window. If this happened to me, i would check the location again using the method here. As for a complete userchrome reference i dont know of one i dont think thered be much advantage to it. I recommend that you create a stylish script using the stylish addon for thunderbird and putting these css snippets in there. Trees contain the lists of items that form the main part of thunderbird s user interfacethe folders, the message threads, the address books, the cards in an address book. While reading the style i thought typefolder would do it.
Rightclick a blank area of the list, click new, then text document. So, back to my original problem, the css file doesnt seem to do anything at all, no matter what i put into it. Get colored firefox title bar in windows 10 winaero. The reason you can see the link styles when you receive an email in thunderbird is because thunderbird is receiving an htmlformatted email created by another program. And i would check my editor settings using the method here. None of the lines in the css file produced any effect, however. Changing font size in folder and message list panes mozilla. Feb 19, 2018 a chrome folder will be created with the usercontent. In fact, tb doesnt even seem to need the information contained in the overlayinfo folder, which seems to refer to the mozillanetscape suite, anyway browser. Changing font size in folder and message list panes. Rightclick on the search box, select add a keyword for this search, give the keyword a name and an easytotype and easytoremember shortcut name lets say actor and save it. User css changing fonts, colors and other style much of mozillas fonts and colors are controlled via css cascading style sheets. In this short tutorial we shall introduce most of that.
To do so, add the relevant code shown below into your userchrome. Most css code is copypasted from already available classic theme restorer and classic toolbar buttons addon code. My installation did not have a chrome directory under the profile folder, so i created one along with userchrome. The css selector tweak is designed to help you find selectors that apply in thunderbirds user interface. This covers 90% of the areas that can be changed in tbs main window. You can combine that information with css3 selectors firefox supports a good chunk of them, most css2 properties and mozilla custom css properties. I dont believe that this is something that thunderbird can handle.
The window is organized in panes, with bars at the top and bottom. I think the %programfiles% profile folder is only read when initially creating a new firefox profile, so adding userchrome. Dec 15, 2009 changing the default font size of thunderbird. Firefox css to move tabs and adress bar to bottom of. Personalize your thunderbird by changing its chrome. There is another chrome folder where thunderbird s code is installed. Window layout thunderbird mozillazine knowledge base. If you want to make say an a5 booklet out of a ps file, with each a4 sheet of paper holding two a5 pages four sides of the booklet then the pages will need reordering to be printed correctly. First, let me give credit to twister mcs wonderful post that i will be using as a reference for the label coloring scripts below. Under linux, the case matters, the c must be capital, the extension lower case.
However, this does not have the effect of increasing the height of the containing element. Am i missing a compile option needed for this to work. Users appdataroaming thunderbird profiles chrome userchrome. This file only affects your mozilla applications display when you are using a particular profile. These 2 files are used to customize firefox user interface and functionality. You can change sans to something else if you like, and of course you can change 10pt to 14pt or whatever. Get colored firefox title bar in windows 10 mozilla has recently released firefox 40, which features an updated theme for windows 10. Click find next or find previous to find the text at other locations in the page, and click highlight to highlight all occurrences of the text on the page. I dont want to add fuel to that fire, but i am curious about som things, especially userchrome. You can increase the size of the font to create a larger display of the same messages by adding a little text file to your profile. This theme was created with the intention of having a better, more usable apprearance under windows 10. I added css to this file, but it does not affect the appearance of firefox. Between the panes there are splitters that you can use to adjust the sizes of the panes.
Jan 08, 2019 this article describes the overall layout of thunderbird s main window. I need a way to change the font size in thunderbird. First, be sure you have nothing else in userchrome. Feb 19, 2018 a chrome folder will be created with the userchrome. I still get the ugly fonts occasionally in dropdown boxes on webpages maybe thats covered in usercontent. Im attempting to make changes to firefox 47 running on ubuntu 16.
My thunderbird userchrome modifications silvercircle. The css used in mozilla user interfaces is mostly the same as the css used in web pages. Thunderbird uses a default font size of 8 to display the text of folders names and message subject lines. Firefox css to move tabs and adress bar to bottom of window. Ive looked around and cant seem to find the userchrome. December 2010 computer tricks and internet hacking. This folder does not exist by default, so you need to create it before you can start adding your preferences. Works with tb version 52 or later tested, may also work with older versions available as public gist on github. Apparently since theyre not created in a new profile, the only time tb needs, or uses, the userchrome. The 200% font for example made no difference before or after i put it in the css file.
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