Thunderbird, Advance to next ...

[Ed Greshko]

Don Russell wrote:
> On 5/10/2006 2:52 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> taharka wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:02 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I am presently using Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060501) and
>>>> FC-5.  Until updating to FC-5 and the latest Thunderbird I could
>>>> prevent Thunderbird from asking "Advance to next unread message in
>>>> ----------?" by making the following configuration changes which can
>>>> no longer be done.  It appears that the configuration files have
>>>> changed and I'm unable to find where to stop this annoying "feature!"
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>>>>
>>>> Bob Goodwin   Zuni, Virginia   w2bod
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  > how to stop Thunderbird from asking
>>>>  >>
>>>>  >> "Advance to next unread message in ................."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In ~/.thunderbird/default/<some_characters>/user.js add
>>>>
>>>> # How to handle the Advance to next unread message in <x> folder
>>>> # prompt.
>>>> #
>>>> # Settings:
>>>> #     0 - Always go to the next folder without prompting
>>>> #     1 - Ask before going (default behavior)
>>>> #     2 - Don't prompt and don't go to the next folder with unread
>>>> #         messages
>>>> user_pref("mailnews.nav_crosses_folders", 0);
>>>>
>>>> (or chose 2 if you do not want to automatically go to next folder with
>>>> unread messages)
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Does the following link help you?
>>>
>>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips#beh_nextunread
>>>
>>>   
>> Yes, definitely!  I searched for that file and never found it.
> 
> 
> Use the built-in config editor:
> 
> tools/options/advanced
> click the Config Editor... button

Ahh...that's "Windows Speak".

You want "Edit/Preferences/Advanced/General-Tab

> 
> In the filter field, enter mailnews.nav
> 
> Double click the one item
> enter your new value....
> 
> Sure beats trying to find the magic file. :-)
> 
> Though you still need to know the magic values. ;-)
> 
> It would be very cool, if, when an item is selected in the config
> editor, pressing F1 would show the comments explaining the different
> values. RFE? ;-)
> 


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