Allow a new Compose Message window to show up in a Thunderbird tab or a free floating window.

[pt]

I have a suggestion for Thunderbird. It would be nice to have Thunderbird allow a new Compose Message window to show up in a Thunderbird tab instead of a free floating window as it does now. I would make this a user configurable item in perhaps Preferences, where the user can select whether he/she wants to have each new Compose Message window be a free floating window or a Thunderbird tab. Thanks for considering this.

[BMJpdx]

wsmwk claims "We live with the same issues you do."

Well, there are people using thunderbird who weren't yet born when this problem was first reported.

[intp]

There continues to be demand for this simple, but long-awaited feature: https://reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/17mv1e0/compose_in_a_new_tab/

[intp]

Can anyone shed any light as to why this long awaited feature has yet to be implemented years later, considering how relatively simple doing so should be?

[wsm]

> Can anyone shed any light as to why this long awaited feature has yet to be implemented years later, considering how relatively simple doing so should be?

Yes, I can do so.  Thank you for your patience. 

I have conferred with the developer who has done the most work in (re)architecting the many functions of the main UI back in version 115 and since, and he confirms my suspicion that delivering this request is far from simple. If it was simple it likely would have already been done.

Given that it is not simple, it goes on the large pile of "things that are not simple that we desperately want to do".  Unfortunately this item does not yet come close to the top of the pile, but we will let you know when it does.

[VLATH]

Please, make an option for compose/write/replay in a new tab.

[wsm]

If you have commented in an idea, please also make sure you have voted.  Otherwise your interest will go unnoticed.

[lakyljuk]

Hi, yes please add it, I am getting lost with many windows and many tabs open, so after a while i dont know where to click, thanks. Voted too. 

[Yurii2202]

I couldn't have agreed more. This is an essential feature. 

Any updates on when it might be implemented?

[wsm]

> Any updates on when it might be implemented?

This is still on the large pile that I previously mentioned.

It is not on this year's project list.  And if I were to speculate, my guess is it might not get on next year's list.