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Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post

From The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post
Date 2026-08-17 12:12 -0700
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On 8/17/26 04:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2026-08-16 22:31, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> []
>>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
>>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>>
>>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>> 
>> Messages in TB and tabs in FF.  I want to delete a lot of the mail I 
>> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted.  Moving it elsewhere is 
>> undesirable.  For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves 
>> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable.  "Pinning" just 
>> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
>> 
>> FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying. 
>> Who even wants such a thing?
> 
> Mail can not be protected from deletion because the engine in the back
> (imap) does not support that feature, so forget it. Just move or copy
> mail elsewhere.
> 
> I have never seen FFx tabs disappear, and I have thousands of them. I
> use Linux, though.

So do I. Slackware 14.2.  Don't ask.  Probably no more than 50 at a 
time, but perhaps a dozen that I NEVER want to close -- and sometimes 
they disappear.  Anomalies happen.  Sometimes xscreensaver doesn't 
start.  Same with xdaliclock.  Sometimes I can't see reCaptchas.  I 
can't leave TB folders in the 'unread' state;  when I leave TB it goes 
back to the not-unread state. I put it down to developers considering 
only apple and windows and ignoring the way linux does things until 
somebody hits them with a cluebat -- and even then they just do a 
quick-and-dirty fix because Hey, it's only a few users...

-- 
Cheers, Bev
     He's your god.  They're your rules.  *You* burn in hell!


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Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-15 22:15 +0100
  Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-15 15:10 -0700
    Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post None <none@none.none> - 2026-08-15 17:25 -0500
      Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-08-15 16:32 -0700
        Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 00:41 +0100
          Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-15 22:35 -0700
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:47 +0100
              Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 13:31 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-08-16 23:53 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 13:04 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 13:35 +0100
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 14:52 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-17 15:12 +0100
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-17 19:45 +0200
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-17 12:17 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-17 16:10 -0400
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-17 12:12 -0700
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-17 16:50 -0400
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-18 07:37 -0700
          Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-16 10:13 +0100
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:55 +0100

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