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[MMottster]

Sorry Capt, I don't understand what you are referencing.

I'd like to thank everyone who has tried to help solve the problem.

Now that I've had to deal with not using the buttons I had before, its grown familiar and does not bug me like it did. Maybe in the next upgrade the buttons will work again.

Thanks.
Michelle

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[captjlddavis]

MMottster,

Sorry I could not help you any....

Unfortunately it still leaves the question open "why does it not work for you"....

I do not use these "features" but like to dink around to see how things work. I am not overly fond of the "Mouse" and "buttons" but it is interesting.....

I did discover that there are two additional "buttons" that can be moved to the menu bars...

"Next" and "Previous" - these seem to only effect "unread" messages, NOT a list of viewed messages.

Entirely to many "Buttons" and icons for this ol' man.

regards:captjlddavis

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old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill everytime......

[xrunner]

I had the same Back/Forward problem. Here's how I fixed it:

1) While in Thunderbird (obviously), open one of the emails to read it.
2) Right-click on the Tool-bar and selected "Customize...".
3) Drag the broken "Back" and "Forward" buttons into the pop-up window that contains the selectable buttons. (Yes, you are removing the two buttons that do not work.)
4) Drag the "Previous" and "Next" buttons from the pop-up window and drop them on the tool-bar.

The "Previous" and "Next" buttons work just like the "Back" and "Forward" used to work.

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[Fulvio]

I brought this up on my post of July 2. I have no idea what the fuss is about, and, having two forward buttons would be confusing, at best.
I never used any of these buttons for the simple reason that they do not help. I look for specific headers or senders, but clicking whatever button it is called would be a good wait to slow me down. Some changes are really annoying, like dropping the Get Mail button from Firefox, but this Back and forward is a non-issue.
FF and TB would, really be customized if one could give buttons any name which comes to mind.

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
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[MMottster]

Thank you XRunner!!! That is exactly what I was looking for. Now I don't have to close out or delete an email to get to the next new in line to be read!!!!

Thanks again!

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[snow_loon]

I had the same problem after upgrading Thunderbird and your fix (below) worked for me.

1) While in Thunderbird (obviously), open one of the emails to read it.
2) Right-click on the Tool-bar and selected "Customize...".
3) Drag the broken "Back" and "Forward" buttons into the pop-up window that contains the selectable buttons. (Yes, you are removing the two buttons that do not work.)
4) Drag the "Previous" and "Next" buttons from the pop-up window and drop them on the tool-bar.

It is interesting that after making the above changes, if you go back into Customize and click the "restore default set" button, Thunderbird puts it back the way it was:roll: , with the greyed out "back" and "forward" buttons. That tells me the staff at Mozilla haven't quite gotten all there ducks in a row on a recent change to Thunderbird...

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[Fulvio]

And, if you want buttons galore, the is the Penelope addon which brings into Thunderbird features of Eudora.
Confusing as heck if not familiar with Eudora.

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[mikejonessmith]

[Fulvio]

Glad they answered your questions. I am 75, and get a lot of e-mail, and, hardly ever, I look at the mail consecutively. So the buttons are of of no use to me. In fact, I remove them, as they clutter the toolbar.

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP3, 512 MB, 3.0.15 regular, 3.5.5 regular and portable , TB2.0.0.23, Flock2.5.2, IE8.0, SM2.0, Google Chrome2.0.x, Zone Alarm Firewall; AVG9.0, JRE1.6_17

[Evil Overlord]

@captjlddavis - many thanks.

This annoyed the hell out of me for quite some time until I found your previous/next suggestion. Astounding that Thunderbird hasn't changed this default in so many years.

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