Thunderbird 102: show one recipient per line when composing new email

Question

in new Thunderbird 102, a redesign was made:

When composing new email, multiple recipients are shown on one line, instead of one-recipient-per line as it used to be.

For comparison, here is how it looked originally on Thunderbird 68:

Is there any way I can revert back to the old design? I am happy to modify omni.ja if that solves the problem

It would be good to know for what reason you need the old design back, so maybe there's a workaround. Helpful hint: in TB 102 you can drag-and-drop addresses between the TO, CC and BCC fields. — 1NN, Aug 23 '23 at 08:16
@1NN - I need the old design back, because this new redesign is obfuscated and unclear. The old design was perfect, no reason to change it. — 400 the Cat, Aug 23 '23 at 10:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '23 at 19:11

Short answer: No. But you might want to try SeaMonkey.

Long answer:

This is a change which was introduced in TB 78 (more than 3 years ago), and it is explained in Thunderbird's "addressing an email" support article.

As is clear from that article, there's no supported possibility to change this as it is seen as a more efficient way of handling things.

The list of available extensions currently does not feature anything remotely related to your request. Also, the addressing bar is not among the UI elements which can be modified by extensions.

You could try to check the list of email clients based on thunderbird, to see if you find something which works for you.

Or, a sure bet seems to be Seamonkey, which according to the screenshots of the UI supports exactly what you are looking for, and is built on the same Gecko Engine which was initially used for Thunderbird. (I have never used SeaMonkey myself, though). Seamonkey supports migrating your profile from thunderbird.

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