This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Width of emails

  • 2 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 5 views
  • Last reply by joe135

joe135
joe135
more options

With the latest versions of Thunderbird, when I click on an email to open it or more often reply to it in a separate window, the email sometimes expands its width to the full width of my screen and beyond. It appears to happen when the prior email I am responding to or simple opening has wide formatting features of some kind. This problem did not exist before and has made it very difficult to use TB. Many thanks, Joe Alsop. joe@alsop.com

With the latest versions of Thunderbird, when I click on an email to open it or more often reply to it in a separate window, the email sometimes expands its width to the full width of my screen and beyond. It appears to happen when the prior email I am responding to or simple opening has wide formatting features of some kind. This problem did not exist before and has made it very difficult to use TB. Many thanks, Joe Alsop. joe@alsop.com

All Replies (2)

sfhowes
sfhowes
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

If a message doesn't wrap when you reply, Edit/Rewrap (Ctrl+R) should help. There's no equivalent option for received mail, but View/Message Body As set to Plain Text is worth trying.

joe135
joe135 Question owner
more options

Thanks. Unfortunately neither measures mentioned solve the problem. This all started when there was a Thunderbird version which changed the look one to two revs ago. Possibly my version of Thunderbird on a Mac has become corrupted and I should uninstall and reinstall? There is another minor annoyance which I could point out, but having messages occupy two screens with no way to resize the width has rendered Thunderbird virtually impossible to be productive with. Thanks, Joe Alsop. [email]@alsop.com

Modified by Andrew