Also getting annoyed by always have to go to the menu item
View – Sort By – and then select ‘Unthreaded’?
Just change the default for new folders and views!
Go to:
Settings – General – Config Editor
Search for the following keys and set them to the desired values:
mailnews.default_sort_type (make sure it is set to 18)
mailnews.default_sort_order to 1 (ascending) or 2 (descending)
mailnews.default_view_flags to 0 (unthreaded) or 1 (threaded)
(And if you want to expand all messages by default then add 32 to the previous value, so enter 32 or 33 as default_view_flags.)
QUOTE NEXT:
here's some off-the-cuff documentation:
Prefs are named as follows; first three apply to Mail and RSS folders, the second three to Newsgroups.
mailnews.default_sort_order
mailnews.default_sort_type
mailnews.default_view_flags
mailnews.default_news_sort_order
mailnews.default_news_sort_type
mailnews.default_news_view_flags
In about:config (Tools | Options | Advanced | General, Config Editor), you can enter "news._def" to filter out all the prefs but these.
sort_type:
byNone 17 byPriority 23 byLocation 29
byDate 18 * byStatus 24 byTags 30
bySubject 19 * bySize 25 byJunkStatus 31
byAuthor 20 * byFlagged 26 byAttachments 32
byId 21 ** byUnread 27 byAccount 33
byThread 22 byRecipient 28 byCustom 34
* = commonly desired values
** = by Order Received (?)
sort_order:
ascending 1
descending 2
view_flags -- the second group of values can be added to one of the first group to combine effects, with several limitations:
Unthreaded 0
Threaded 1
Grouped 64 [mail only (?)]
ShowIgnored 8 [news only]
ShowUnreadOnly 16
ShowExpanded 32 [doesn't seem to work]
ShowUnreadOnly will check the View|Threads|Unread menu; this will cause only
unread items to be seen, but doesn't force a threaded view.
The source for the values above is: here
That’s all folks.
Have a nice day!