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    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 23 09:42:58 2021
    I'm running Thunderbird Version 52.9.1 on Windows XP.

    It used to be that whenever I deleted a message, the next unread
    message would pop up. A while back, it suddenly and without
    provocation started jumping back to whatever I was looking at before I
    opened the message instead of opening the next message.

    Today I'm skimming through an accumulation of mailing list messages,
    and when I got down to sixty-one left, I said "I can't *take* this any
    more! There must be *some* way to put it back the way it was."

    But I've been all through the menus on several occasions, and can't
    find the button to unclick.

    Do any of you guys know where it is hiding?

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    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
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  • From Steve@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Tue Mar 23 12:09:52 2021
    On 2021-03-23 8:42 a.m., Joy Beeson wrote:

    I'm running Thunderbird Version 52.9.1 on Windows XP.

    It used to be that whenever I deleted a message, the next unread
    message would pop up. A while back, it suddenly and without
    provocation started jumping back to whatever I was looking at before I
    opened the message instead of opening the next message.

    Today I'm skimming through an accumulation of mailing list messages,
    and when I got down to sixty-one left, I said "I can't *take* this any
    more! There must be *some* way to put it back the way it was."

    But I've been all through the menus on several occasions, and can't
    find the button to unclick.

    Do any of you guys know where it is hiding?

    Try double-clicking (toggling) the preference mail.delete_matches_sort_order in Config. editor and see if that helps. The default value is false.

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  • From Arthur Conan Doyle@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Tue Mar 23 15:00:09 2021
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:


    I'm running Thunderbird Version 52.9.1 on Windows XP.

    It used to be that whenever I deleted a message, the next unread
    message would pop up. A while back, it suddenly and without
    provocation started jumping back to whatever I was looking at before I
    opened the message instead of opening the next message.

    Today I'm skimming through an accumulation of mailing list messages,
    and when I got down to sixty-one left, I said "I can't *take* this any
    more! There must be *some* way to put it back the way it was."

    But I've been all through the menus on several occasions, and can't
    find the button to unclick.

    Do any of you guys know where it is hiding?


    I don't think this has changed, but in the current build - Tools/ Options / General. Scroll down to Read & Display. Uncheck "Close message window/tab on move/delete."

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to dont@bother.com on Wed Mar 24 10:42:51 2021
    On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:00:09 -0500, Arthur Conan Doyle
    <dont@bother.com> wrote:


    I don't think this has changed, but in the current build - Tools/ Options / General. Scroll down to Read & Display. Uncheck "Close message window/tab on move/delete."

    It worked!

    "Display" was listed on the same level as "general", so there have
    been changes, but it's still there. (Umm "previously" there?)

    Thank you to all.

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