How to add Search field back to Thunderbird /
Icedove 3.0
After my last package upgrade from Debian Testing/Unstable to
Debian Squeeze, my Icedove (e.g. Thunderbird) got also
updated.
The new version which substituted the last one is
3.0.11.
Immediately after installation I was offered to migrate the way my
Thunderbird looks, whether the new look wasn't very intuitive to me
and therefore I decided to stick back to the old Thunderbird
versions interface.
As I've closed the Migration Assistant, after selecting to use the
old settings, a bit laters I suddenly realized my
Thunderbird
Search bar has disappeared!
That's a big shit especially, when I take the fact that I have
about 5 mailboxes configured and I do regular searches for some
data which I need in my mailboxes.
I did a lot of searching online for a solution to the issue, but it
doesn't helps at all, even I took the time to ask in
irc.mozilla.org , #thunderbird but noone there answered my
question.
I therefore came to the good old method of try and fail. After a
bunch of digging through the
Thunderbird menus I accidently
found a way to restore back my Search bar field.
Here is how;
As the newer versions of Thunderbird is equipped with The
Thunderbird Migration Assistant , the migration assistant
provides you with few configurable options which can help you move
on your thunderbird interface to the newer look and feel (as I
earlier said).
What is interesting here that the so called
New Toolbar
options when disabled does suddenly also remove the mail client's
Search interface.
Therefore to fix my missing Thunderbird search bar, here is what I
did:
1. Click over:
Help -> Migration Assistant
2. From the migration assitant go and click over
use new
toolbar
Navigation Assistant -> use new toolbar
Now thanks God the
Thunderbird Message Search will appear
back in Icedove's toolbar.