The Quick Filter window displays by default the text Filter These messages... <Ctrl+Shift+K> as displayed on the attached screenshot.The text disappears when I start typing into the window, but reappears again when the text in the window is deleted.I find the text distracting. Is there any way to remove it? I would like to have an empty window with no text.I am using Thunderbird 24.4.0
Thunderbird Quick Filter - remove default text
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Yes, there is a way to remove it.I quickly hacked together a simple addon that does this via an XUL Overlay specified in its chrome.manifest. I don't see a good way to achieve this without an addon or modifying files.Technical details:The original file, chrome/messenger/content/messenger/quickFilterBar.xul located inside omni.ja sets the text with the following XUL tag using the attribute emptytextbase (on line 139, for Thunderbird 24.5.0):<textbox id=qfb-qs-textbox flex=1         type=search         placeholder=         emptytextbase=&quickFilterBar.textbox.emptyText.base;         ...Just for reference: &quickFilterBar.textbox.emptyText.base; is defined in chrome/<lang>/locale/<lang>/messenger/quickFilterBar.dtd, also located inside omni.ja.The XUL Overlay inside my addon changes the text to an empty string with the following line:<textbox id=qfb-qs-textbox emptytextbase=></textbox>