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Hiding number of messages under Message List Header (post thunderbird 115)

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After installing Supernova update (love it to be honest), I started playing with the customisation settings. If I am not mistaken I found a way to hide the number of messages under the Message List Header section, but now I can't seem to find this option, can anyone point me to this?

Please see attachment or alternatively see link below, referring to #4 on this article screenshot. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/getting-started-with-the-main-window-of-thunderbird-115-supernova/

After installing Supernova update (love it to be honest), I started playing with the customisation settings. If I am not mistaken I found a way to hide the number of messages under the Message List Header section, but now I can't seem to find this option, can anyone point me to this? Please see attachment or alternatively see link below, referring to #4 on this article screenshot. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/getting-started-with-the-main-window-of-thunderbird-115-supernova/
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Use this css to hide the message count in the header:

#threadPaneFolderCount { display: none !important;}


Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

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View/Layout/Message List Header.

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sfhowes said

View/Layout/Message List Header.

That completely removes the message list header, which I prefer to keep as I use the quick filter. I'd like to remove just the number of messages.

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Use this css to hide the message count in the header:

#threadPaneFolderCount { display: none !important;}


Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

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sfhowes said

Use this css to hide the message count in the header:
#threadPaneFolderCount { display: none !important;}


Help/Troubleshooting Info, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Settings/General/Config. editor, restart TB.

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Fantastic, that worked. Thank you.

Going to look for more useful CSS customizations as I never knew it was possible that way.