While not as popular as they used to be, desktop email clients provide some great benefits over webmail, and are great if your work type demands it. While you can keep desktop mail simple without any customizations, power users appreciate using add-ons in Thunderbird to make their mail experience just right.

Thus, it's frustrating when an update to your favorite software changes options that you expect to behave a certain way. Multiple users have reported issues with the latest update to Thunderbird changing the way that hitting Enter spaces paragraphs; while it used to make a single space, it now double-spaces in between paragraphs.

If you'd like to go back to the old spacing convention, here's what you need to change in Thunderbird.

Head to Tools > Options >, then under the Composition tab, select General. Now, find the option labeled When using paragraph format, the enter key creates a new paragraph and disable it. That's it! Now pressing Enter when typing a message will only create one line instead of two.

While you were changing this setting, you probably forgot what you wanted to say in the email. That's why you should be using a clipboard manager!

Did this setting bother you, or do you prefer to have a new paragraph on a double-spaced line? Let us know down in the comments!

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