Tired of having to “Load Images” or accept images from a site? There is a solution that is not very hard to implement. The following procedure will accept or display all remote images by default. Follow the steps exactly to avoid damaging your Thunderbird configuration. Selecting the wrong entry to edit could make a total mess of your Thunderbird.
- Open Thunderbird
- Select the Tools dropdown menu at top of screen
- Select Options
- At the top of the Options window, select Advanced
- Select Config Editor which will take you to an about:Config window
- In the “Filter:” box, type mailnews which will filter the file and give you all the lines that have “mailnews” in them
- Scroll down to the line that says mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image
- Click on (highlight) that line
- Observe that the value for this Preference Name is “true”, which means that remote images are disabled
- Double-click the line to change the value OR right-click and select “Toggle”
- Verify that value is now “false”, which means that the display is NOT disabled
- Close the about:Config window
- Close the Options window
- Restart Thunderbird
The next time an email with remote images is in your inbox, there won’t be that little question at the top of the email asking “Load Images” or “Check here to always load…” After you know this is working, you might want to go through your Address Book and clear out all those entries you no longer need, especially if you put them in your Personal Address Book (which is where they went by default). It was possible to create a new Address Book, and rather than clicking on the “Check here to always…” line, if you right-clicked, you got a popup window, with a dropdown where you could select the Address Book that would be used.