If you’ve just installed Thunderbird on Fedora 13, you’ve probably noticed the Global Search bar is missing. At least, this is one of the first things I noticed. After using Thunderbird 3.x for sometime on Windows I’ve really come to love this feature.
It seems the default configuration on Fedora doesn’t enable this feature by default, however it is simple to get working. Go to the Preferences menu, Advanced section and check “Enable Global Search and Indexer”. After this, restart Thunderbird and it will begin indexing your mail. After which, the Global Search should work as expected.
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Thank you for this info. I’ve also have come to love this feature of Thunderbird. It simplifies and work and saves lots of time and headaches.
I should also point out, that I didn’t see the Search Bar after following your instructions. But I simply clicked: View->Toolbars->Customize
Then the search bar was available to drag onto the menu.