Allow Manual Drag-and-Drop Reordering of Items Within the "Favorite Folders" View

[defaria]

Subject: Feature Request - Manual Sorting for Favorite Folders Pane

With the deprecation of legacy extensions like "Manually Sort Folders," users running modern versions of Thunderbird no longer have a way to manually arrange the sequence of folders inside the "Favorite Folders" pane.

While Thunderbird recently implemented excellent native drag-and-drop sorting for top-level account trees and standard folder hierarchies, the "Favorite Folders" mode remains strictly locked to an unchangeable mix of account order and alphabetical sorting.

Current Pain Point:
If a user marks individual high-priority folders from separate email accounts as "Favorites" (for example, "Inbox - Home" and "Inbox - Gmail"), they cannot drag them to sit directly next to each other. The only current workarounds are to completely change the physical sorting of the entire global account tree, adopt the unwanted clutter of "Unified Folders," or use an ugly kludge like renaming folders with numerical prefixes (e.g., "1. Inbox", "2. Inbox").

Proposed Solution / User Story:
I want to be able to left-click, hold, and drag individual items up and down exclusively within the "Favorite Folders" panel, completely independent of their alphabetical names or original account hierarchies.

Allowing a custom user-defined sequence in this specific view would turn the Favorites pane into a truly powerful, streamlined control center for power users with multiple email accounts.

[Jon]

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