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I have the latest version of Thunderbird 31.2.0 and I have lost the minimize/maximize/close buttons at the top right corner of the application. How to fix this?

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I am running Thunderbird 31.2.0 and I have lost the minimize/maximize/close buttons at the top right hand corner of the screen. I have tried all your other suggestions but nothing seems to work...the screen is not in full screen mode.

I am running Thunderbird 31.2.0 and I have lost the minimize/maximize/close buttons at the top right hand corner of the screen. I have tried all your other suggestions but nothing seems to work...the screen is not in full screen mode.

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Can you check to see if this is being caused by an addon theme or extension?

what theme are you using? Default31.2.0 ?

Help > Restart with Addons disabled.

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re: I have tried all your other suggestions

It would be useful if you stated what you had tried.

Can you confirm you have this setting: Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General tab

click on 'Config Editor' button In top search type; title look for this line: mail.tabs.drawInTitlebar; Value = false

If the Value = True, double click to toggle 'True' to 'False' or right click on line and choose 'toggle'.

close Window - top right X clickon OK to save Preferences

Please report back on results.

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I did as you suggested and changed the value to 'false' but this has not fixed my problem.....

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Can you check to see if this is being caused by an addon theme or extension?

what theme are you using? Default31.2.0 ?

Help > Restart with Addons disabled.