Old-style smilies is a Thunderbird extension that adds the old-style emoticons (smilies) from the 2.x branch of Thunderbird to newer releases, in the compose window.
Old-style smilies is an open source add-on designed to work with Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 and later.
How to Install in Thunderbird:
1. Right-click the link below and choose "Save Link As..." to download and save the file to your hard disk.
2. In Mozilla Thunderbird, open Add-ons from the Tools menu.
3. Click the Install button, and locate/select the file you downloaded and click "OK".
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Requirements:
· Mozilla Thunderbird
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Theme has been converted to an extension, thus allowing other themes to be used while keeping the old-style smilies.