User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 This is a Thunderbird issue with Netscape history. I'm actually asking for an enhancement. I upgraded Netscape from 4.72 to 7.2 a couple of months ago. When I did, Netscape re-ordered my Address Books. They're still sort of alphabetic, but they start in the middle and wrap around. That is, the last 26 Address Books are "Personal Address Book", "Collected Addresses", and then the first 24 Address Books from my old Netscape 4.72; the first 15 Address Books correspond to the last 15 in my Netscape 4.72 Address Book. The original order was "Personal Address Book" followed by the rest of the Address Books in alphabetic order because I moved them around to be in alphabetic order. Note: this reordering was done by the Netscape upgrade. Some time later (2004/12/17), I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and imported the Address Book from Netscape 7.2. It faithfully reproduced the Netscape 7.2 Address Book order. In other words, the order is still wrong but it matches that of the Netscape installation from which it was imported. I haven't tried, and therefore don't know, what Thunderbird would have done had I imported the Netscape 4.72 Address Book instead of that from Netscape 7.2. Requested Enhancement: Please allow users to reorder Address Books. Netscape 4.72 supported a drag-and-drop reordering. That is, in 4.72 if I selected an Address Book, dragged it up or down the list of Address Books, and then released it, Netscape 4.72 would leave it in the new location. Neither Netscape 7.2 nor Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 supports this (and, yes, I've already requested this of Netscape through their feedback). P.S. Your Address Book importation works better than Netscape's. Netscape mangled the names of some of my email folders that contained special characters when it imported them from 4.72 to 7.2. Mozilla Thunderbird got them all correct without any name mangling. Thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to move any Mozilla Thunderbird Address Book to a different position in the list of Mozilla Thunderbird Address Books. 2. 3. Actual Results: Nothing. No Address Book could not be moved from its existing position in the list of Address Books. Expected Results: Mozilla Thunderbird should have supported drag-and-drop movement of Address Books within the list of Address Books.

xref Seamonkey Bug 158062 see bug 272940 too

(In reply to comment #0) > Please allow users to reorder Address Books. There is a workaround for this problem. Experimentation with Thunderbird 1.0.2 shows that the order in which address books are displayed is controlled by two things: 1. The order in which they appear in prefs.js, with the exception that the "Personal Address Book" (pab) always appears at the top. 2. A 'position' property (i.e. ldap_2.servers.pab.position), which can override any ordering set by rule #1. So for example, adding: user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.position", 1); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.Clients.position", 2); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.Vendors.position", 3); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.MailingLists.position", 4); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.history.position", 5); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.Obsolete.position", 6); to my prefs.js resulted in my preferred ordering.

FYI, order in which address books are searched is a related problem for which I have created a separate bug report: bug #292153.

Bug 158062 is now core address book & is the same as this one, therefore duping to that bug *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158062 ***