Essential Thunderbird Add-ons

by Vikash Surolia

7 Add-ons in this Collection

CompactHeader by jmozmoz

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 191 reviews

15,508 users

Add symbol in header plane to switch between compact and expanded view. Work only for Thunderbird 68.0 and older. Currently, there are no plans to update this for newer versions.

FireTray by Foudil, Francesco S., others

A system tray extension for Linux and Windows, allowing to set up custom icon, hiding to tray instead of closing, display the number of unread messages in mailing applications, and other features ...

Google Contacts by H.Ogi

Rated 3 out of 5 stars 307 reviews

11 users

Access to Google contacts and synchronize them with Thunderbird address books.

Contact Tabs by thunderspeed

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 60 reviews

152 users

Contact Tabs enhances Thunderbird to give you quick access to all your contacts directly from Thunderbird's main window: Use the powerful search field to find your contacts and open them in a new tab for viewing and editing.

Mail Summaries by squib

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 48 reviews

663 users

Adds a summary of mail accounts and folders to replace the account central pane and the empty folder preview

No Message Pane Sort by thunderspeed

Rated 5 out of 5 stars 55 reviews

3,997 users

No Message Pane Sort prevents accidental resorting of the message pane by disabling mouse button clicks on the column headers, thus, locking the sorting order of your emails.

It is still possible to sort messages by ctrl-clicking the header.

Flat Folder Tree by Gadget Master

Rated 4 out of 5 stars 32 reviews

19 users

Selectively breakout or promote sub-folders under an intermediate folder in the folder tree. Use with IMAP servers where some folders remain collapsed under special namespace like [Gmail] or the INBOX itself.

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