Thunderbird classic view

[jesnow]

I just upgraded to Thunderbird version 136 because my calendar no longer worked under OWL in 128.

Now the calendar works, BUT the User interface is unusable. They have worked very hard to include lots of gratuitous vertical padding and wasted space to give it a more "modern" look.

The old thunderbird is still in there, but it's (deliberately?) buried behind MS Outlook, which they clearly want to emulate. If I was Ok with outlook, would I be using thunderbird?

Here's my list of settings to get the old UI back:
1) get the (hidden by default) menu bar back: Go to the "Hamburger" (three bars in the upper right of the title bar) ->View -> Toolbars -> Menu Bar
2) Get the (hidden by default) classic folder layout back: View -> Layout -> Classic View
3) Enable the (hidden by default) Message list header: View -> Layout -> Message List Header # (necessary in order to expose more view options)
4) Restore compact line spacing (set to double space by default): View -> Density -> Compact
5) Restore old "Table View" (card view is now default): <icon to right of "Quick filter") -> Table View

If you do all of that, you have everything nearly back the way it was.
Cheers,
Jon.