Thunderbird Calendar (Lightning): How to navigate to a date not in an adjacent month or year?
I’m using Thunderbird 68.1.2 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit).
In earlier versions of Lightning (maybe as recently as a month or two ago), I was able to use the Mini-Month in the Calendar Pane to navigate easily to dates not adjacent to the displayed month or year. As I recall, clicking on the month name in the Mini-Month would drop down a list of months; clicking on the year would drop down a list of years. This feature is no longer available.
The Mini-Month has buttons “One Month Back”, “One Month Forward”, “One Year Back”, “One Year Forward”, and “Go to Today”, but these are much more cumbersome for navigation than the previously-available dropdowns.
Here are my questions:
1. Is the removal of the month and year dropdowns from the Mini-Month a feature, a bug, a problem with my Thunderbird installation/configuration, or something else? 2. Is there still a way to navigate to a non-adjacent month or year other than one month or year at a time?
Thanks.
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It seems it was removed by choice:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529433
Scrolling with the mousewheel on the Back/Forward buttons is a decent alternative:
Thanks for letting me know about scrolling with the mousewheel. That helps a bit.
I do agree with bug 1529433 that there should be a better way to navigate dates.
Joel Saks said
I’m using Thunderbird 68.1.2 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit). In earlier versions of Lightning (maybe as recently as a month or two ago), I was able to use the Mini-Month in the Calendar Pane to navigate easily to dates not adjacent to the displayed month or year. As I recall, clicking on the month name in the Mini-Month would drop down a list of months; clicking on the year would drop down a list of years. This feature is no longer available. The Mini-Month has buttons “One Month Back”, “One Month Forward”, “One Year Back”, “One Year Forward”, and “Go to Today”, but these are much more cumbersome for navigation than the previously-available dropdowns. Here are my questions: 1. Is the removal of the month and year dropdowns from the Mini-Month a feature, a bug, a problem with my Thunderbird installation/configuration, or something else? 2. Is there still a way to navigate to a non-adjacent month or year other than one month or year at a time? Thanks.
Thanks for the advice Joel Saks said
Thanks for letting me know about scrolling with the mousewheel. That helps a bit. I do agree with bug 1529433 that there should be a better way to navigate dates.
John Neil said
Joel Saks saidI’m using Thunderbird 68.1.2 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit). In earlier versions of Lightning (maybe as recently as a month or two ago), I was able to use the Mini-Month in the Calendar Pane to navigate easily to dates not adjacent to the displayed month or year. As I recall, clicking on the month name in the Mini-Month would drop down a list of months; clicking on the year would drop down a list of years. This feature is no longer available. The Mini-Month has buttons “One Month Back”, “One Month Forward”, “One Year Back”, “One Year Forward”, and “Go to Today”, but these are much more cumbersome for navigation than the previously-available dropdowns. Here are my questions: 1. Is the removal of the month and year dropdowns from the Mini-Month a feature, a bug, a problem with my Thunderbird installation/configuration, or something else? 2. Is there still a way to navigate to a non-adjacent month or year other than one month or year at a time? Thanks.Thanks for the advice Joel Saks said
Thanks for letting me know about scrolling with the mousewheel. That helps a bit. I do agree with bug 1529433 that there should be a better way to navigate dates.