By default the developers thought it would be a really neat idea to cause confusion for people who never used Cards View, so they enabled it by default.

You want to use 'Table View'.

Newer version have something called 'Message List Header' toolbar and to the right of the 'Quick Filter' button is a new icon - click on it and then select 'Table View' from the drop down. I've added an image below as a guide.

To get image dispay in the Message Pane header area when you select to open and read an email.

• Select email so it displays in Message Pane
• click on 'More' and select 'Customise'
• Select checkbox for 'show sender's profile picture'
• Click on 'Done'

The image is the one you use in the Address Book for the contact.

I did find that I had to restart Thunderbird to force it to update whatever file it needed to update after I had added an image for a contact.

I my previous version I selected a picture of a horse which would appear when Thunderbird started. Can I do that with this version ?

Can't find Message List Header' toolbar and to the right of the 'Quick Filter' button ????

I my previous version I selected a picture of a horse which would appear when Thunderbird started.

I guess that you mean what is displayed in the message pane when TB opens (see picture). It is called Thunderbird Start Page and you can choose/change it in Settings > General > Thunderbird Start Page (picture)

1. c:\desktop\brownhorse.jpg

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File not found

The file /c:/desktop/brownhorse.jpg cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.

re :Can't find Message List Header' toolbar and to the right of the 'Quick Filter' button ????

Image you posted - above the column headers is the 'Message List Header' toolbar 'it says: Inbox 112 Messages on the left and on the right there is the 'Quick Filter' button which if selected shows the 'Quick Filter' toolbar - but there is another icon to the right of it which looks like small rectangles - clickon that icon and then select 'Table View' - see image below where I've highlighted the icon in a red square.

re :Thunderbird Start Page and you can choose/change it in Settings > General > Thunderbird Start Page (picture)

Yes that still works but it does not look like you have entered the location correctly. Most people do not have a desktop directly on the C: drive. They have a user account name which they enter a password when they start computer.

I've just added an image as Start to display in the Message Pane area Two examples. My User Account has some folders by default eg: Documents, Photos, Pictures In Pictures is another folder which contains the image I want. My example:

• C://Users/Myuseraccount name/Pictures/My Art/green_jars-crop.jpg

I put a copy of that image onto my desktop, so now the location would be: example:

• C://Users/Myuseraccount name/Desktop/green_jars-crop.jpg

So you might need to edit as follows:

• C://Users/YourComputerUserAccount name/Desktop/brownhorse.jpg

Thats it, never would have found it on my own. Table view is what I had on my old PC.

Now for the picture

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bobbee25 said

File not found The file /c:/desktop/brownhorse.jpg cannot be found. Please check the location and try again.

On my Mac the location address is file:///Users/username/Tafunatu.png

You might try the following location address file:///C:/users/username/desktop/brownhorse.jpg If this doesn't work read this KB article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Start_Page_for_mail#Changing_the_Start_Page

r Image you posted - above the column headers is the 'Message List Header' toolbar 'it says:

It was MY image. LOL!

I got it, moved off the c volume and entered:

file:///f:/k/desktop/brown_horse.jpg

Thanks a lot, I am back to where I was last week.

One more question, I want to install Thunderbird on my backup pc, after the install, is there a file(s) that I can copy over so I don't have to go thru this again ?

Go through what? The whole TB installation or just the picture as the start page?

The table view, start page etc oversll is there a configuration file ?

@bobbee25 If you install Thunderbird on your backup PC and want that everything in Thunderbird (accounts, settings, messages, calendars, address books, ...etc ) should be identical to your working PC, I advise to migrate the Thunderbird profile from the working PC to the backup PC >>> "Move Thunderbird data to a new computer" http://mzl.la/1ApHiU3